The best way to know the self is feeling oneself at the moments of reckoning. The feeling of being alone, just with your senses, may lead you to think more consciously. More and more of such moments may sensitize ‘you towards you’, towards others. We become regular with introspection and retrospection. We get ‘the’ gradual connect to the higher self we may name Spirituality or God or just a Humane Conscious. We tend to get a rhythm again in life. We need to learn the art of being lonely in crowd while being part of the crowd. A multitude of loneliness in mosaic of relations! One needs to feel it severally, with conscience, before making it a way of life. One needs to live several such lonely moments. One needs to live severallyalone.

Wednesday 15 July 2015

ANOTHER SHAMBOLIC ACT BY AAP

It is not about that petrol and diesel are still cheaper in Delhi than neighbouring states of Punjab and Haryana.

It is about betraying people once again and that too when the Aam Aadmi Party government is just five months old in the office - the five months that it completed only yesterday.

And the move by the AAP government has come just two weeks after denying to plan anything on this line.

After the uproar two weeks ago about the proposal to increase VAT, Raghav Chadda, the party's spokesperson, had rushed to clarify: "We have reduced the penalty. We didn't say that we are increasing the VAT. We have just tabled the amendment for the flexibility of VAT department."

Let's see what he had to say today. Today, he tried to shield behind verbal jugglery inundating his response with technical (financial) terms saying - "FMs of all North Indian States decided that  fuel prices should be at uniform rates to avoid geographical tax arbitrage and trade malpractices."

Well, public doesn't understand such jargons and people who have voted for the AAP (or for that matter any other political party or government) react negatively to such developments.

And it will reflect in elections. The AAP, due to its ignorance, may not gauge it in Punjab polls, but the outcome will certainly be humiliating in Delhi if this streak continues. Five years on electoral scale are not too long.

And such a 'hostile to public sentiments' move came on a day when the BJP led Union Government reduced prices of petrol and diesel by Rs. 2 throughout the country. That made the AAP's shabby response sound even more hypocritical.  

Totally indefensible and Manish Sisodia's response only added to it - (tax rates on Petrol-Diesel are being rationalised in Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, HP, Chandigarh & UP under unified tax policy. 1st time in North India.)

It may be first time in India - this rationalization as said by Manish Sisodia, Arvind Kejriwal's right hand and Delhi's deputy chief-minister, may be debatable - but the AAP's fall from grace after February 14, 2015, when it took oath for the second time, has been, unfortunately, an uninterrupted show.  

And the continuing advertising blitzkrieg, on public's money, is only adding to it. The message such acts by the AAP government send that the government has not been able to raise money and is insensitively indulging in acts to finance its populist measures and its wasteful expenditures.

©/IPR: Santosh Chaubey - http://severallyalone.blogspot.com/