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एमपी इलेक्शन: सर्वे की कोख से निकली लिस्ट

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  Kamal Nath is going out of way to prove he is not anti-Hindu MP Assembly Election Update: 14 October 2023 NK SINGH कमलनाथ के प्लान के मुताबिक काँग्रेस की लिस्ट इस दफा सर्वे-नाथ ने बनाई है। प्रदेश के नेताओं में आम तौर पर सहमति थी कि लिस्ट इस बार सर्वे के आधार पर बनेगी। पर क्या यह महज संयोग है कि यह लिस्ट राहुल गांधी के गेम-प्लान के मुताबिक भी है? वे अपनी पार्टी के क्षत्रपों के कार्टेल को ध्वस्त करना चाहते हैं, जो 10-15 एमएलए के बूते पर प्रदेश की पॉलिटिक्स चलाते हैं। सर्वे की कोख से निकली लिस्ट कमोबेश जीत की संभावना के आधार पर बनी है। एनपी प्रजापति जैसे अपवादों को छोड़कर कोई सप्राइज़ नहीं। बीजेपी की लिस्ट देखते हुए, काँग्रेस इस बार फूँक-फूक कर कदम रख रही थी। भाजपा उम्मीदवारों की पांचों लिस्ट 2018 के मुकाबले काफी बेहतर थी। नाम दिल्ली ने तय किए, प्रदेश के किसी भी नेता के प्रभाव से परे। चयन का आधार गुटबाजी नहीं, जीत की संभावना रही। इसलिए, दोनों तरफ के उम्मीदवारों का लाइन-अप देखकर लगता है, मुकाबला कांटे है। टिकट न मिलने से निराश नेताओं की बगावत का दौर शुरू हो गया है। यह हर चुनाव में होता है।
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OPERATION ONION, A CRAZY PLAN

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Buyingfor Rs 8 and selling for Rs 2 is a recipe for scandals NK SINGH Onion is selling in Bhopal at a retail price of Rs 13 a kg. MP Government is purchasing it from farmers at Rs 8 a kg and, then, auctioning it to wholesale dealers for Rs 2.50 a kg, the minimum sell price fixed. The middlemen are raking in unbelievable profit of 500 percent. An economist may call it a harebrained idea: purchasing something for Rs eight a kg and then selling it at one-third of the price. But the government is doing it in the name of bailing out farmer, hit by a plunging market. Operation Onion looks like a get-rich-quick scheme. Step one: Government buys at the rate of Rs eight a kg. Step two: Government sells at the rate of Rs 2.50 a kg.  Step three: Traders sell it back to farmers for Rs 5 a kg. Step four: Farmers recycle the sold-purchased-sold onions to government at Rs 8 a kg. Everyone makes a quick buck. Everyone is happy. It is simple. It is beautiful. The scheme announce
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Government of Utmost Hapiness

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MP CM believes that a promise a day keeps Congress away NK SINGH Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan loves to make promises. His political opponents call him Ghosna Veer ---- announcement warrior. The derisive Hindi term conjures up image of a Don Quixote, a knight in shining armour, out to save his subjects by creating a canopy of announcements to shield them from Unhappiness. Sample this. In the first ten years of his tenure he made nearly 8,000 promises. The average comes to more than two announcements a day. During the last three years, as he settled in his job, the speed slowed down --- onlyy 1,500 announcements, at the rate of 1.3 per day. Every time the chief minister climbs a stage to make a public speech, heartbeat of his officers in Vallabh Bhavan, the state secretariat, goes up. They tighten their belts, waiting for the unexpected. Often they learn about decisions having grave implications for public finances through public address syste
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MP, A GRAZING GROUND FOR POLITICIANS

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Leaders shortchange the State, make it a political orphan NK SINGH Country’s first high speed premium luxury train, Tejas, rolled out last week between Goa and Mumbai, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu's area. The second Tejas will ply between New Delhi and Chandigarh. Bhopal is, of course, no where in the picture. Eighteen years ago, Madhavrao Scindia, who was Railway Minister then, gifted country’s first Shatabdi Express to Bhopal. It was a world class train. Anyone who has travelled by Shatabdi during its initial years was thrilled by its level of punctuality, cleanliness and quality of food. You could set your watch by the train’s arrival and departure. It was The Most Prestigious Train. Now travelling by the same train has become a nightmare. Coaches stink. Seats are broken. So are most of the fixtures in toilets. Windowpanes are cracked. Doors don't close. You need to be a brave soul to visit its loo. Even Executive Class coaches are in dilapidated condition. Tra
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TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK MP

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MP Govt ends up with egg on face for mishandling farmers’ agitation NK SINGH The Madhya Pradesh Government has never had such an incompetent Home Minister. Bhupendra Singh has ended up with egg on his face due to his mishandling of the ongoing farmers’ agitation. Earlier this week, after six farmers were killed in Mandsaur firing ---- the toll has now gone up to seven ---- he insisted that police had not opened fire on the crowd. It took him three days to find out that it was his police that had opened fire! The least that he could have done was to apologise for his brazen attempt to mislead people. But, apparently, he belongs to the genre of politicians whose skin is thicker than a crocodile’s. Bhupendra Singh is not the only one with egg on his face. As the agitation turned violent, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan described the farmers as “anti-social elements”. Later, he declared an unprecedented compensation of Rs one crore to relatives of the same “anti-social
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