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So much for Kapil Sibal’s forward looking policies!
http://mashable.com/2012/06/06/mobile-health-accountability-india/
1. Remove ALL restrictions on inter state movement of food grains and food in general.
2. Remove ALL levies and taxes on food.
3. LT remedy: Allow EXPORTS of food/grains. The profits in the hands of 70% of India will increase consumption, therefore GDP.
4. Remove Govt intervention in canalization of minerals and food grains. No min support price either.
5. Allow free pricing of ALL oil based products - LPG, Diesel, Kero & Petrol
6. Cut back on all non-Law & Order government expenditure.
7. Make legal system free to levy charges to fund more benches and judges & infra in courts, with escalating slabs of charges.
8. Reduce standard tenure of all levels of Government from 5 years to three.
9 GOI gets OUT of any and all forms of Business, concentrate on policy and laws and rules harmonization.
10. Delegate financial authority down to the Panchayat/Municipality levels.
@jsvasan
That must seem a no brainer to most people.
It also points to a vacuum that will be filled either by a further loss of freedom or by a sudden fancy for a new political party that comprises hitherto civic activists. The ‘alternative’ if one is to surface would need some essential, perceivable, features; the principal amongst which is transparency.
Transparency created by media spin won’t last. Transparency in functioning, experienced in reality by the members of a party will help carry conviction to the voter and more cohesion of support to those at the helm, even under trying circumstances.
Transparency of functioning would also lend strength to the elbow of those who will have to take tough, unpopular decisions in the larger interest. The rank and file would be able to explain such decisions if they are rational.
And the first step in transparency of a political party is internal democracy from top to bottom. The days of the god-like leader who is beyond discussion or challenge is a thing of the past in this information age. Just look at the politics and political parties in the older democracies and you’ll see this operating.
But what is not so obvious is that political parties and their leaders have forgotten that ideology comes after people’s needs, demands and aspirations. Not before. That ideology can deal with the way peoples’ demands and aspirations are met, not if they are ‘good for the people’.
On that score, no major Indian political party scores more than zero.
