Manmohan gives India food 'poison'

"If you can't win votes, buy them out" has been the political philosophy of the Congress after the degeneration set in the party following carcinogenic long rule of Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru at the top of the political executive. The buffoons in Congress have succeeded in converting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who brought freshness of economic thoughts in 1990s, to their clan.

Life begins in beauty but ends ugly. This is law of the nature. Even Manmohan Singh can't defy it. His birth in the political executive was nothing short of a beautiful burst of youth. His was a key role in un-Sovieting India. 

But the winter of life brings degeneration. Manmohan's mental health was battered after he was made the Prime Minister, a post he was not made for. "Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely" is famous not for no reason. Thrown into the high and turbulent waves of Indian politics, Manmohan became Dhritrashtra overseeing his ruffian offspring to loot and shame India.

Now, the last act, hopefully, of Manmohan is to Soviet India again. This is despite the fact that the Soviet Russia has been within the pages of the world history for over two decades now. But the love for Soviet Russia within the first family, as the Congress indoctrinates people to believe in, is only growing. So, Manmohan, after vacillating for over four years, fell for Sonia Gandhi's (UPA chairperson and Congress president) Soviet obsession. 

In the southern tip of the Indian map, tiny shops dot lanes and bylanes selling "Amma Idli", "Amma Dosa", "Amma Vada", "Amma Sambar" and so on. In the eastern part, the man, who can't speak the native language and "who is rumoured to begin his drinking session by noon", Naveen Patnaik, doles out flat 35 kg of rice at Rs 1 a kg and his people have not yet failed him. In Chhatisgarh, chief minister Raman Singh went a step ahead and enacted a law to this effect. His neighbour -- Shivraj Singh Chouhan in Madhya Pradesh -- understood, that you could get votes if you could fill the tummy first. Sonia was a latecomer and thought that this is an insurance against all the follies committed by her men under the Dhritrashtra Prime Minister since 2004.

Thus, the Union Cabinet chaired by Manmohan Singh last evening gave its stamp of approval to National Food Security Bill, which has been drafted not by the government, but by the ultra-Leftists sitting in the extra-Constitutional body called National Advisory Council (NAC), which is headed by none other than Sonia Gandhi herself.   

The government says implementing the Food Bill will cost Rs 1,24,000 crore a year. Wait a moment, as the

government lies often. Go a layer inside. "To begin with, the cost of implementing the Food Bill will be Rs 1,49,000 crore ($25 billion) a year. If you add the cost to ramp up ancillaries (storage, irrigation, etc.), the overall expenses will be Rs 1,95,000 crore ($ 32 billion) a year," said a senior official in the ministry of food and consumer affairs. He forgot to add one thing, that the government raises minimum support prices of paddy and wheat roughly by 10 per cent each year to keep the farmer lobby in a good humour. So, keep adding another Rs 20,000- Rs 25,000 crore every year to the Food Bill cost.

Finance Minister P Chidambaram's head too has spun, after the British news magazine "The Economist" suggested that he could be the man for Rahul Gandhi as Manmohan was for Sonia. Hence, his worries over the current account deficit (CAD) evaporated as if it was a camphor. The Rupee is left on a sliding slope. Dollar reserve in India is taking inspiration from Usain Bolt. But Chidambaram thinks that his first job is to buy votes. How would he be able to girdle his dhoti is to be seen as Amma in Tamil Nadu (J Jayalalitha) is keeping a hawk's eye on him. 

So, the man (Manmohan Singh) who began un-Sovieting India in 1990s is apparently signing off (no one does so, but made by the people) by Sovieting the country again. It's a full circle for him. From where you come, you go there. "You come beautiful, but go ugly" is substantiated by Manmohan Singh with his last act.