ABSURD…… Is that the right word?

Free mobile phones to every BPL (below poverty line) family with 200 mins of talk time p.m.!

If things go well (for the UPA and disaster for the nation), that’s how the beleaguered UPA attempts to woo the voters. The scheme is supposedly termed 'Har Haath Mein Mobile’ (a mobile in every hand). 

Would admit – that’s some kind of innovation even for the ‘been there - seen all Indian public’.  





 UPA is trying to take the nation the Tamil Nadu way where ‘free’ was the key word in last few elections.  DMK started with free TV and AIADMK followed by offering mixers/ computers etc. free.  Disaster is a mild word in these kinds of situations.

There has been a lot of debate / shows on ‘cash for vote’ during election times (of course by the media for the media).   What is striking is how this is different from ‘cash for vote’.   The minor deviation is ‘whose cash’.  Here it is the tax payer’s money.  If the idea is to grab votes… why not from their party fund?

See the timing.  We are looking at a general election due in 2014 and  this weird benevolence will take its own time and may fructify only in 2013.  Voter’s memory will be fresh and what more can the UPA ask for!  A bulls-eye! 

Consider the economics of this benevolence which is estimated at Rs.7000 Crores.  Isn’t it peanuts compared to a 2G scam /coal-gate / CW scam and the list goes on.

The only saving grace, if it’s not posturing… is the report that the Finance Ministry is not keen with this proposal.  



I somehow feel that the whole thing is ‘absurd’ and that’s why that word is in the title of this blog.

Oh I forgot......... What about ‘ROTI, KAPADA AUR MAKAN’.  

Come on… thats no big deal when you have a mobile phone and 200 minutes of talk time per month.  ho jayega.......