PowerPlay

I got the surprise of my life today when I went thru the newsprint. So much so that I need to write this blog.
Anyway, the view listed below is my futile attempt to pen down something that has been in my mind for some time!
So here goes,

There are three Big Questions for our dear readers!

No: 1) What does the world’s richest cricketing board and the poorest of the poor farmers of our land have in common?

Ans: Both share Mr Sharad Pawar as their guardian.

Because, he is the Hon Union Minister for Agriculture in India and also the President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (not necessarily in that order).

And talking abt cricket, let us face the next bouncer question:

2) How many times have you seen Mr Sharad Powar, the person most liable, come in the news for a cause of agriculture?

Ans: Never until today… (At least for me)

Maybe as an answer to the prayers of the countless, today finally he was in the news regarding the crops.

And since that s a bit too hard to digest, the third question is relatively very easy…

3) Even for a Union Minister, why this bias?

The answer is simple and straight: - Money!!!


It has always been a blot to our society that the contribution of agriculture on the Indian GDP scale keeps steadily decreasing.
It now stands close to a mere 2.5%.
Situation is so bleak that people today look down upon agriculture as a loss making venture. Unpredictable monsoon, petty politics, pathetic PDS all weigh down upon the poor and illiterate farmers every year resulting in huge loans but empty stomachs.

And now the whole nation is facing an imminent food crisis.
From an export of rice and wheat to an importer of wheat at exorbitant rates, last year we pushed the global market into an unprecedented state of flux.

After so much of buying inflation from the outside world, with prices of cereals, pulses, wheat touching the sky… the finance minister today is having sleepless nights to hike the export and to strike down on the import duties.

Hence it is paradoxical that our farmers be living in poverty.
Their counterparts in Ukraine, Australia and many other parts are not in such dire straits.
And with more than 60% of the nation’s population surviving on farming alone, the gravity of the situation gets alarming.

But here we have a Union Minister for agriculture turning such an appalling situation into a blind spot.
Himself from Maharashtra, a land which is always in the news for its high rate of farmer’s suicide, it is nothing short of criminal negligence.

One needs to just take a tour of the lands of Vidharbha to take stock of the situation.
The grim faces of frail mortals are very different from that of the present rich friends of Mr Pawar, whom they had voted to power so loyally.

It is adding salt on wounds for the millions of poor farmers to watch their “central guardian” share the spotlight to earning billions.
Well, the minister is where the money is... and he is making merry of it.
For a top politician to be so high handed and negligent in his civic duties talks volumes about the confidence of system perpetrators to escape the law.

So why is there no justice? The answer to that is so simple that I don’t have to waste my breath…

Ok, my free time is up. Back to work!

But for all those Yawners who live corporate, the budding entrepreneurs of tomo,
forget farming but there is much to learn from BCCI!!
Just look at how politically correct they have played their cards, they just did everything correct by taking in Pawar.