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Gujjars towards peace!

It had been long weeks of gruesome-unheard war raging at Bansala, the stronghold of gujjars.
All that started when the gujjars felt anguish over the fact that they remained Backward castes though they were small in number. And you would be wrong if you thought that they needed to project themselves as a forward minded community. Its the other way round here in India, thanks to all the pomp and luxuries the most backward communities are enjoying.

The Unseen "Divide n Rule"

The schedule Tribes(ST's)
The schedule Castes(SC's)
Most Backward Caste(MBC)
Backward Caste(BC)
and the remaining fall into the unserved categories.

In India the politicians have learnt that the DIVIDE AND RULE left by the Britishers was indeed a great notion to rule a government and bring down a ruling government. Be it any law, from job vacancies in government jobs to reservations in top-notch educational institutions, the reserved castes enjoy the better creamier pie leaving the crumbs to the qualified.

Hence every community in India fights it way backward to enjoy more reservations....and people vie to get(buy) a certificate from them. Minorities are always pampered.

It is the same status the Gujjars want. They need to be categorized as ST's.
The Gujjar stance:

• In Rajastan the Meeras a community with larger number of people are ST's
• The Vasundara Raje government promised to demote them as ST's when elected tp power.
• The commission's report which was set up to look into this matter last year ended in favour of the government.
  

Protest:
Bayana-the strong hold-hunger strike-rail rokos-grieving over the dead

The gujjars never allowed the postmortem of the people who died in clash with the armed forces against their uncalled strikes and rail-rokos, until late last week when the gujjars thought that the government had more important issues like containing inflation, protests over Fuel Hikes and hence decided to call for a peace talk between the government.

Today the first talks seems to be promising for the gujjars and the government and still three more to go for a minimum.







A boomerang always comes to hit its master!

Public life comes to a standstill!

Yet another victorious day!
Indians are really good at it, particularly the communist parties of India. When they declare it as a Bandh it remains so. Public life comes to a total standstill. Left parties have been propagating strikes since their existence. Kerala witnesses a strike so often that it is no more than a day-off from work, stay at home, relax and spend some good time with family.
Today's strike was no different. West Bengal seems to have improved upon it. No transport option for the public was available what-so-ever. The trains were canceled off, buses never took off from depots, flights were either delayed or canceled. People stranded at stations and airport was a common sight.The only vehicle i saw was an ambulance that had the roads all for itself.
Its the turn of Trinamool congress to show protests tomorrow for they too have called for a strike in W.B .


However on the brighter side the day witnessed many states subsidizing on the fuel hike especially on LPG. Delhi residents will have to pay only Rs. 10 additionally on LPG. States like Tamil Nadu, Kerala , West Bengal, Delhi have already decided to reduce the sales taxes on fuel.
On the lighter note none are run bye Congress. But it was the PM who called the support of the states in this crunch situation.

No. Public holidays in India always = (N+n) , where

• N is official

• n is a bandh

Left parties have called for a strike in India!

As a outright consequence of today's fuel price hike left parties have called for nationwide protests all over India starting from tomorrow. Initially the states ruled by the left regime will go into Bandh(or strike) tomorrow namely Kerala, West Bengal and Tripura. It is supposed to be 12 hour strike calling for a total standstill of normal public life. All public service utilities will not be functioning except the essential emergency services. The left parties are trying to rally support from other state parties like the Mayawati run BSP.
Earlier the Left parties decided to give a subsidy and lowered taxes on the fuel reducing the burden on the aam-aadmi(the common man).
The Prime Minister welcomed this move and rallied support from the public stating that it is "Either higher prices now or no fuel later" quoting to the deficit faced by the oil companies. He also wanted the States to congregate efforts to reduce the effect of indispensable hike.

The crunch of the fuel hike comes into effect this midnight!

With the inflation rates soaring (about 8% last Friday) your money in Banks no more going to earn you. Infact you would end up loosing as the interest rates are only about 5% .


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Petroleum Ministry announces much anticipated price hike!

The ministry today decided to increase the prices of petrol, diesel and LPG(Liquefied Petroleum Gas). This price rise has been much anticipated as the oil companies were facing a crunch deficit which went over 2 lakh crores. The government had taken a back seat till the Karnataka state elections were over which they ultimately lost to the BJP by a margin of about 20 seats. Now that there's a few months for the next elections for the four states, the government feels that the time is just right to hike the prices.
Petrol price up by Rs. 5.00
Diesel up by Rs. 3.00
and LPG by Rs. 50/- per cylinder.
However the kerosene prices remain untouched!
Btw you can't find kerosene stoves used in kitchens except in deep rural regions having no access to electricity!

The oil companies were reported selling only branded fuel due to the deficit they incurred. Rationing of fuel seems to have a long run into the future.
Soon after the hike the left parties announced a week-long country wide agitation against the price hike starting tomorrow!

Happy driving the congested lanes of India.

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