Uma’s development agenda ranges from absurd to the weird, says the Indian Express.
From absurd to the weird, right. But development agenda???
The Prime Minister has set a 100 day dead-line in Madhya Pradesh for perform or else….. Mid-way between, the CM has decided, in her own inscrutable wisdom that ‘development’ is too tedious and thankless a route. She now takes an alternate route to development.
What I am hearing loud and clear is this : lack of development can bring about the downfall of a Government (Diggy fell because of the roads and powerless days and nights)… but is development enough to bring a Government to power? Sure, the BJP surged into MP with its election platform of ‘road and electricity’….. but she also believes that the next time around, people will remember her for her gaushalas(cowsheds) and for renaming Bhopal Bhojpal rather than for laying any old road.
Is this mere weirdness? A total insensitivity to conditions around the state and a lack of understanding of people’s immediate needs. Or does she believe (or worse, realise) that people have actually no hopes of seeing development and would rather settle for such populist measures…..
Maybe Uma Bharati thinks that people who put up with Digvijay Singh for so long will also put up with her. After all, she’s given the state capital a new name….
The BJP had a vision 2010 for Madhya Pradesh as part of the pre-election run-up to Chief Ministership…. Vision 2005 to me is a cow-based economy (or what survives of it)…. Moo to you, Bharati!
Ruling parties have changed, but little else has changed in Madhya Pradesh……