March 1990: Lalu Yadav took the
command of the state. His party ruled the state for fifteen year(10 year
himself and 5 year his wife as a CM). During this tenure he did nothing
for social development(needless to say). Instead, he promoted casteism,
protected goons and indulged in corruption. Unemployment was huge,roads were
full of potholes.
November 2005: Nitish Kumar took the
charge. People voted for him in desperation. It was anti-incumbency that
gave him chair. First thing he did was deployment of "shikha mitra(friend
of education)".His objective: improve the quantity of those getting
education. He improved condition of roads(especially in PATNA),ornamented
PATNA. Well, his development also percolated down the villages. Condition
of electricity has improved. colleges are running their sessions almost on
time. Development rate in current fiscal has reached 14%.
Everything looked good. And then came Markandey Katju. In an open
college visit he said "no press freedom in Nitish's Bihar". He also
appointed three member committee to investigate the matte.
I am vindicated! Last summer when I was there, I saw
newspapers(local) for almost ten days and I reached at the same
conclusion. Even the bestseller dainik
jagran seemed biased. I especially noted its inclination
towards BJP-JD(U).
so, finally here is the true picture: Nitish too involved itself
in fooling biharis. What can be more worse than censuring the press? Lalu
promoted caste politics to be in power and Nitish is killing the very
foundation on which democracy is standing for the same cause.
Let me explain why i am saying he is killing the democracy. Media
is involved in creating opinion.Journalists are opinion leaders of the day.So,
their inclination towards any party or partiality will kill voices of
opposition. with time it will create one party system and then an authoritative
government.
And thus people will again lose as happened in the past.
People has a lot of expectations from Nitish. After his latest
victory in election he told media that he asked people to elect him on the name
of development and if people won't support him nobody will dare asking for vote
in the name of development in comming time. People responded by giving him
almost 85% seats in Bihar assembly.
Now its his turn. And I request him not to fool Biharis again
because people might not dare to cast for his party again.
