Editorial: "BRING BACK THE BLACK MONEYS" in LAW ANIMATED WORLD, 31 January 2011 issue (Vol. 7, Part 1, No. 2)

BRING BACK THE BLACK MONEYS

stashed away in umpteen foreign banks by corrupt scoundrels of all hues from our country – ought to be, and perhaps is going to be, the main demand, the fiery slogan, of all democrats in the country. We have just seen the Tunisian people rising up and showing their tyrants the door and now the Egyptians are chanting: “One, two, three, four… kick the tyrant out of the door!” Who knows tomorrow it may not be our turn to besiege the national capital and other cities in millions demanding settlement of accounts of all the huge wealth the corrupt rulers, politicians, bureaucrats and all other types of rascals made subverting the letter and spirit of our constitution, especially the dictâts in the Directive Principles that ‘the State shall strive to promote the welfare of the people by securing and protecting … a social order in which justice, social, economic and political, shall inform all the institutions of the national life’ and that it should direct its policy towards securing “that the ownership and control of the material resources of the community are so distributed as best to sub-serve the common good … [and] that the operation of the economic system does not result in the concentration of wealth and means of production to the common detriment.” But, sadly, we find everything going the wrong way and not only immense concentration of wealth and disgusting conspicuous consumption we see around us but also trillions of rupees of unjust gains – amounts which could have easily paid for the entire infrastructure and all the poverty alleviation and public health programmes so direly needed – ‘outsourced’ to safe havens in different countries – a new sort of ‘colonial’ plunder by our own ‘indigenous’ satraps! The PIL by Senior Advocate and former Union Law Minister, Mr. Ram Jethmalani, has brought this ugly quagmire to the focus of the country with certain Supreme Court Judges also seeming to have been incensed by the awful loot. We have already alerted several times in this journal about this rape of the motherland by her own spoilt children and the urgent need to stop all that, and, emphatically reiterating the same, appeal to the people to rise to the occasion now §§§

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Editorial: "SIXTH OPTION, THE BEST OPTION!" in LAW ANIMATED WORLD, 15 January 2011 issue (Vol. 7, Part 1, No. 1)

SIXTH OPTION, THE BEST OPTION!

Strictly per schedule, the learned, intelligent, perspicacious and patriotic Srikrishna Committee, constituted to consult, study, examine and report on the Situation in Andhra Pradesh in the wake of the recent separatist and integrationist movements, has delivered its excellent report, of course not without faults and errors in fact and perception but which are like the moles on the moon, suggesting six options – (i) status quo; (ii) Bifurcation into Seemandhra and Telangana, with Hyderabad as Union Territory …; (iii) Bifurcation into Rayala-Telangana and coastal Andhra …; (iv) Bifurcation into Seemandhra and Telangana with Hyderabad Metropolis, including Nalgonda and Mahaboobnagar districts, providing contiguity to Seemandhra, as Union Territory; (v) Bifurcation into Telangana with Hyderabad as the capital and Seemandhra with a new capital; and (vi) keepting the State united by providing certain constitutional/statutory measures for socio-economic development and political empowerment of Telangana by creation of a statutory Telangana Regional Council – to rectify the horrible impasse in Andhra Pradesh with own recognition that the first three are not that desirable or feasible. Holding the last to be the best option the Committee was confident that it will receive a near unanimous acceptance by the people of Seemandhra and Hyderabad Metropolis; that, on balance, it is the most workable option in the given circumstances and in the best interest of the welfare of the people of all the three regions, as well of the entire country. We had suggested this option long back and have been consistently canvassing it amidst all separatist frenzy; so we agree and confirm, with a rider that such councils are a must for all the three regions; failing that, we recommend the fourth option, with a difference that instead of/in addition to Mahaboobnagar, Khammam district, which indeed is the district that will be hurt most by separation, may be joined in the Hyderabad Union Territory. Our impassionate appeal to the people of Telangana not to be misguided by the false propaganda of the separatists and respecting the sentiments of the majority of the State people, as also in general national interest, to consent and work for this best option. §§§

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