Why Deve Gowda is bad for Bangalore

Status
Not open for further replies.
N

Nikhil

Forerunner
Bangaloreans must banish H D Deve Gowda if they wish to see any developmental works come to fruition.

I am conscious of the fact that I am saying this about a former prime minister of India, but then if the man himself does not know how to behave like a former prime minister, then he deserves to get it from ordinary folks like me.

This man has become a pain all over the body for Bangalore and Bangaloreans. He has made it abundantly clear time and again that he simply cannot tolerate anything that could make Bangalore a little more developed than his native village or anything that could make the life of Bangaloreans a little less stressful.
Just look at this short list of people and projects that have become victims of this man's politics:

The late Ramakrishna Hegde suffered at his hands for having provided him the ladder to political power. Or, did Hegde suffer at Deve Gowda's hands because he, as chief minister in the 1980s, did so much to make Bangalore green and wonderfully livable and promoted Bangalore as India's Silicon Valley?

The globally-admired N R Narayana Murthy had to suffer Deve Gowda's abuses too.

What is Murthy admired for? For several things: it was Murthy's company Infosys that showed India what it is capable of. It is Murthy and his friends who have shown how to create wealth, and more importantly (although not from Deve Gowda's point of view) how to distribute it to the people who actually generated it.

But above all, it is his honesty and integrity that Murthy is admired for. And this farmer prime minister (oh, what misfortune it was that befell India in 1996!) calls Murthy a land-grabber!

Unlike Deve Gowda, Murthy guards his reputation fiercely. Murthy resigned from the chairmanship of the Bangalore international airport project as soon as Deve Gowda spewed venom on him (but, of course, after giving Deve Gowda a fitting reply in facts and figures, after which the latter has shut his mouth tight on the issue).

Then think of poor Siddaramaiah. For long, he was Deve Gowda's right-hand man. Then, one day, he was ousted like so many other close associates of the 'son of the soil'. His crime: He was perceived as a relatively decent politician who at least sometimes thought of the welfare of the people. He was therefore more popular than Deve Gowda's sons.

Now, his latest target is the Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor project. Somehow, it has to be scuttled. Otherwise, Bangalore and Mysore will get a piece of world-class infrastructure and the people of Bangalore and Mysore will get a little bit of speed and comfort. That Deve Gowda cannot tolerate.

Or maybe it is Ashok Kheny, the managing director of the company constructing the corridor, that Deve Gowda cannot stand, because the man is doing something that would be useful to Bangalore and Bangaloreans.

Actually, it is difficult to make out whether Deve Gowda scuttles development projects while trying to scuttle individuals or scuttles individuals while trying to scuttle development projects!

But the result is always comprehensive -- his politics has scuttled not just admirable individuals and their useful ideas and projects, but has scuttled the prospects of the entire city and its six million people.

Even conceding all his allegations against the likes of Murthy and Kheny, this man must be asked one simple question:

Murthy's 'land-grabbing' has resulted in high-paying jobs for over 50,000 people, and worldwide respect for India and the Indian IT industry. Murthy and his wife have spent millions of rupees of their hard-earned wealth to improve schools and libraries for thousands of village children all over Karnataka (while Deve Gowda pays lip service to rural India). Why, they have even built clean toilets all over Bangalore -- something that Deve Gowda never even thought of as public work department minister, chief minister, or even as prime minister.

Ashok Kheny's 'land-grabbing' will result in world class infrastructure and townships all along Bangalore-Mysore, reducing commuting time to less than half what it is now, saving fuel and time for millions of people -- something Deve Gowda never thought of.

I challenge Deve Gowda to come out and tell us how many lives has he made better through his political career.

Why should this man have any say at all in Bangalore's affairs? Why should Bangaloreans continue to tolerate his brand of politics? Why should he be allowed to scuttle Bangalore's development?

If Gujaratis can feel so (unjustifiably) angry about Aamir Khan's stance on the Narmada dam as to damn him and his movie out of the state simply because they 'felt' he had said something anti-Gujarat, then wouldn't the people of Bangalore be completely justified in banishing Deve Gowda who has been so visibly and so patently working against their interests?

PS: Let me make a prediction. Deve Gowda's next target will be the Bangalore metro rail project and the man who will head that project E Sreedharan, who has gained admiration in India and around the world.

Sooner or later, Deve Gowda will accuse him of land-grabbing, of trying to profit, of anything that he can conjure up. Somehow, he has to scuttle the metro project and somehow, he has to tarnish Sreedharan.

Deve Gowda can't sleep otherwise.
Click to expand...

Why Deve Gowda is bad for Bangalore
 
nikhil said:
If Gujaratis can feel so (unjustifiably) angry about Aamir Khan's stance on the Narmada dam as to damn him and his movie out of the state simply because they 'felt' he had said something anti-Gujarat, then wouldn't the people of Bangalore be completely justified in banishing Deve Gowda who has been so visibly and so patently working against their interests?
Click to expand...

nothing personal against you nikhil but i have humble objection to the word unjustifiably.

how can you say the protest of gujarati people is unjustafiable. if amir khan has freedom of speech that 5 crore people of gujarat too have freedom of expression.

no one is against amir and his freedom, the objection is against the manner in which he spoke and the platform he used to raise his voice is not praise worthy.

to bring to your kind attention (as a matter to all who are concerned or not concerned about this issue) you must be aware of suicides by farmers of karnataka in recent past as they could not get waters of kauvery. like wise the farmers of gujarat are also patiently waiting for years for waters of narmada to quench their thirst, irrigate their lands.

i do not intend to start any flaming or discussion on this issue but still i felt to present my views.

if i have hurt anyone`s feelings then i am sorry.
:peace:
 
medpal said:
like wise the farmers of gujarat are also patiently waiting for years for waters of narmada to quench their thirst, irrigate their lands.
Click to expand...
And so that the farmers can live comfortably, hundreds of people will be evacuated so that the reservoirs can grow and store more water. What about those people who have still not been provided rehabilitation. Where do they vent their anguish of being removed from their homes/farms ? Many of those people have been sitting in Delhi for last few months just to get their voice heard. Amir just said that rehabilitate them and then increase the height. I dont think anything is wrong in that.
Though since SC has cleared the matter and the work of raising height has been okayed, there is not much left in this matter. But since you dont have to evacuate ur home because of govt. project you can say this. I for once know all this cause when a Highway project was okayed in Nagpur our home was to be destroyed, i know what goes on in the family where whole life my dad spent in building that house. But eventually we all won in SC, so now the issue is closed. But the thought is scary coz u have to leave behind ur house/business coz govt. wants to put a new project. But then to beneft for the future govt. has to take harsh steps.
 
First of all, yes, I didnt write the article :P It was on rediff and I just copy pasted the whole thing.

And abt Aamir, I support him wholeheartedly.

He never said the dam should not be built or he was against the dam.

He just said that he would like the displaced people to be properly rehabilitated first before the height of the dam was increased and more peopple were displaced.

Anything wrong with that??
 
^^ i agree with nikhil.... it looked more like a political gimmick right from the start and nothing else! maybe cause he's a muslim??????

rehabilitation is a must, even the sc states that...the project would have been complete years ago had they just rehabilitated all the people and not act like dictators or oppressors, like the ones in china when the 3 georges dam was complete!!

here in india the value of a human being is so low, you tend to wonder what would happen if it really was a dictatorship then a democracy!
 
i know the post was not by nikhil.

thats why i humbly objected to the fact.
there are many instances on this forum where the poster has been reprimanded for copy pasting the data from somewhere else without checking the validity.

before the post creates flames and heated discussions i had very clearly mentioned i do not want to create stir.

btw this thread is meant for opinions regarding our ex sleeping prime minister so we keep discussions at that only. if still people insist open up another thread on narmada and we discuss things there.
 
Well doc,

This was a guest article by someone for rediff..... it is not a question of validity. This is not news per se......
 
chic_magnet said:
^^ i agree with nikhil.... it looked more like a political gimmick right from the start and nothing else! maybe cause he's a muslim??????
rehabilitation is a must, even the sc states that...the project would have been complete years ago had they just rehabilitated all the people and not act like dictators or oppressors, like the ones in china when the 3 georges dam was complete!!
here in india the value of a human being is so low, you tend to wonder what would happen if it really was a dictatorship then a democracy!
Click to expand...

Yeah!

And I would suggest that people should stay away from bringing religion into this for no matter at all. This is a secular topic and let it be so.
 
1. Aamir Khan was trying to get publicity for his movie.

2. His statement was correct - merely a repetition of he SC verdict.

3. I don't agree with ruffians threatening to not allow his movie to be screened

4. I have no problem with people protesting his views - that is legal.

5. Gujaratis can be angry - because in Gujarat, all rehabilitation has been done a long time ago.

6. The controversy is because Mr Khan made these remarks alongside the NBA. The NBA has been claiming that the Gujarat government has been a laggard in rehabilitation, whereas most reports indicate that they have mostly done a good job. Aamir Khan was therefore viewed as an anti-gujarat NBA member.
 
hmmm....my friend had gone to gujjuland 3 weeks ago... and according to him they still have a long way to go in terms of rehabilitation...!

remember the rehabilitation done was according to the height of the dam, now that its increased even more land would go underwater and hence you would need to rehabilitate even more people... and rehabilitation such that they get an agricultural land , where they can cultivate food grains.. which is wat they are loosing currently! what's the point of rehabilitation if you lose everything and dont get anything back! eg- lose your land but dont get another piece of land!

and why the protests against his remarks.. if i`m not wrong i had seen that it was the bjp that lead the protest... its thier gov at power in gujrat.... so why dont they just do the needful by rehabilitating the people and getting the damn dam built finally!!

its nothing , but a political gimmick... to mislead the people into thinking that the gov is doing its work, whereas in reality its not!

abt the banglore thingy.. the only time we used to hear good things abt development was when there was a task force in place in banglore to execute all development projects...which is non existent now!

my friend's leaving for bang on the 20th... and i quipped.. "from one hell-hole to another"
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Top Bottom