Archive for July 2015
Soon after becoming chief minister of Madhya Pradesh for the first time, Shivraj Singh Chouhan had given a clear hint to the people of the State that he had come not to alleviate their sufferings but to gobble up their resources and cause them untold miseries. He had, of course, used mythological symbolism to convey his intentions. He should not be blamed if the people failed to understand what he was hinting at.
He had organised a two-day conclave of secretaries and Collectors in Bhopal ostensibly to learn from them the mantra of development and given it the name of Manthan. He had made it amply clear that he meant by Manthan the mythological Samudra-Manthan when he said that the emerging nectar (Amrit) would go to the public and the poison he would take himself.
The legend of the Samudra-Manthan is that the gods, having been thoroughly defeated and humiliated by the demons, repaired to Lord Vishnu to seek from him renewed vigour and the gift of immortality. Vishnu directed them to collect all plants and herbs of diverse kinds from every quarter and drop them into the ocean; then churn the ocean (Samudra-Manthan) by using Mandara Mountain as the churning stick and Vasuki serpent as the rope.
The Samudra Manthan yielded 14 items including a celestial cow, a white elephant, the goddess of wine, Apsaras (the nymphs), in addition, of course, to terrific poison and a pitcher of nectar which Dhanwantari (the gods’ physician) himself carried in his hands. Lord Vishnu had manoeuvred in such a manner that the nectar or Amrit had been distributed to the gods or Devtas while poison had gone to the lot of the Asuras or demons. By claiming that he would partake of the poison, Chouhan had clearly presented himself as the demon, intent upon destruction of an orderly life all around. He knew what he was saying because he always claims his scholarly knowledge of Hindu mythology.
To help him in his task of swallowing up resources of the State and making the life of the people miserable, he had chosen two worthy lieutenants, corruption-incarnate Prakash Prabhakar Naolekar as the Lokayukta and symbol of corruption Rakesh Sahni as the chief secretary. Outside the official circle, he had two trusted helpers in the discharge of his mission of looting the people, Dilip Suryavanshi and Sudhir Sharma, both controlling between the two of them the builder and mining mafias.
Chouhan: Master of Illusions
Posted on: July 10, 2015
Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is a master of illusions. He makes them appear so lifelike that even the most astute minds are taken in. These days he is being hailed as the champion of the egg-less diets for the children in Anganwadis. Even the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) decided to honour him after he valiantly declared in early June that eggs were never served in Anganwadis and will never make it to the menu as long as he is at the helm of affairs in Madhya Pradesh.
Eggs had never been served to children in the Anganwadis in Madhya Pradesh. That is, till Chouhan became the chief minister. It was he who introduced eggs in mid-day meals in September 2007 with a great fanfare as a means to check malnutrition among tribal children. The project was implemented in 38 blocks of 19 districts. A State-level outfit was constituted with Sanjeev Shrivastava as the Project Coordinator. As many as 64 officers of 19 districts were trained and the master trainers were expected to impart training to their subordinates in their districts.
Chouhan, however, decided to call off the project after reaching an understanding with the leaders of the Jain community on the eve of the 2008 Assembly elections. Soon after he romped home with a thumping majority, he made the project ‘un-project’ as George Orwell, the celebrated author of ‘1984’, would have liked to call it because for the chief minister and his cohorts the project of serving eggs in Anganwadis never existed in Madhya Pradesh. Some cynics even feel that it was all a well-thought out strategy of the chief minister to win back the support of the Jains who had started drifting away from him. The Jain community has a sizeable presence in Madhya Pradesh.
Dalit card that did not work
Posted on: July 4, 2015
The popularity of the Congress was on the decline during the latter years of Digvijaya Singh’s second term as chief minister of Madhya Pradesh. A senior IAS officer, who was in the good books of Digvijaya Singh, advised him to play the Dalit card in the 2003 Assembly elections. With the blessing of the chief minister, the IAS officer, himself a Dalit, organised a two-day conference in which the Dalit problem was dissected from various angles by experts invited from different parts of the country and a ‘Bhopal Declaration’ was adopted.
To the disappointment of the IAS officer and the chief minister, the media did not go gaga over the momentous deliberations taking place in Bhopal. At the end of the conference, the IAS officer took some of his trusted friends from the journalist community to the rooftop of a private hotel where they were treated to premium whiskeys and dainty dishes. The resident editor of an English daily had one peg too many and had to be virtually carried to his car. The editor, however, decided against calling it a day and retiring to his bedroom. Instead, he instructed the driver to drive to the office so that he could finish the day’s work. His by-lined story appeared on the front page of his newspaper the next morning.
I called up the IAS officer to congratulate him on his getting such a good display. But he said in a pathetic voice: ‘Sharmaji, I have read this piece five or six times but I have not been able to decide whether he has praised my efforts or pulled my leg’.
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