Amul Babies
Last week a few interesting things have happened. It started with Rahul Gandhi making a remark on his Kerala Election rally that if the LDP was re-elected in Kerala, by the time the next elections rolled around they would end up having a 93 year old CM ( Chief Minister V S Achuthananadan is 87 currently).
Of course Chief Minister V S Achuthananadan (oh yes the same one of "kutta bhi nahin atta" fame of Major Unnikrishnan- click here for details) remarked back that Rahul Gandhi was an Amul baby rallying for other Amul babies.
Rahul Gandhi had a very solid point. Till the last elections, we had one of the
At 77, Manmohan Singh is among the world's oldest leaders. His predecessor, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, was 80 when he left office in 2004. Morarji Desai became prime minister at the age of 80 and continued until the age of 83. Jawaharlal Nehru and Narasimha Rao occupied the prime minister's seat until age 75, while Inder Kumar Gujral was 78 when he became prime minister.
For the first time our leaders average age is 56 approx till recently it was 62+. Age and experience is excellent and should be used for mentoring the newer leaders. Standing for elections at 87 is like trying to father a child at that age….the shoe definitely does not fit.
How can a leadership as old as this lead us into a internet age. In most other countries we have a mix where old tempers the new, age tempers the youth and growth is achieved.
What most people forget when they elect a leader is he will be around 5 years…..so Rahul Gandhi was absolutely correct when he reminded viewers that even if Chief Minister V S Achuthananadan was 87 years young now by the time the next elections came around, he would be well past his shelf date.
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The second incident which hit the headlines is the Vile Parle hawkers issue. I dont know how many people have been following the story but it goes as follows:
At Vile Parle on Bajaj Road, people suddenly they had had enough with the hawkers in the area. They then staged a dharna. Held placards, agitated, had them removed after a great amount of difficulty.
It became so bad that they had to setup a TV set and chairs on the road during the world cup so that the hawkers couldn't come back.
Guess what , they are back and this time its not the BMC to blame , its the lazy fat housewives of Bajaj Road.
A bunch of these women went out and signed a petition asking for allowing the hawkers back since they felt they had to walk too far to get their vegetables, etc.
Can we understand why the country is so messed up when we have politicians who apply such logic.
As to the housewives, if only they walked a little instead of getting off immediately outside the local Golds gym from their air-conditioned Accords perhaps they would lose a few more pounds.
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