NSG waiver

India has finally been able to get the NSG waiver and mostly clean, without any major draft amendments. In all of this process, I really admired the confidence, the relentlessness and the new found assertiveness of our diplomatic mission. It is to be complemented. I think that even if in actuality, the deal may not come out be the greatest benefactor to the country, symbolically it is a great achievement.

I am unable to understand the great fuss that the left is making about this deal? What is their main problem? That it is costly? I think that can be managed if we think in terms of private public partnership and I assume that is how it is going to be. If the cost is their only concern, then that can be solved I am pretty sure. For this they have made such great statements like Prime Minister should resign etc. It is all bullshit and exposes the fact that all they know to do is shout slogans and protest. I have found that Left faction in our country is a destructive force. They offer no solutions to the problems that they decry. There are just sweeping generalizations from their side about what needs to be done. Never is there a concrete plan of action. Lifting the masses, reducing poverty, protecting the poor. It is all good. But how do you propose to do it? Give me an answer to that. Simply by cutting down the solution that others provide? I think that they need to realize that offering a solution is their job too. It is not like everybody is answerable to them. They are equally answerable.

CPI(M) has been ruling the state of West Bengal for nearly 30 years now and still West Bengal has the maximum number of slum dwellers, maximum poverty and joblessness, falling economy and falling standards of living. 30 years is not a small time. It is like they have almost shown that we can not expect them to help us move forward, not at a great pace at any rate. If only they were constructive, then with their concern for the poor, we could have bridged the gaps of inequality much sooner than we expect too.