Trust lost

The Verdict in Justice Loya’s case by the Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra has come as a grave shock. Even when the four senior Judges of the apex court came out in open to accuse the Chief Justice of allocating sensitive cases to select benches comprising preferred judges, one was hesitating to buy the idea as we had great trust in the Chief Justice of India that he would act fairly in all cases. Alas the verdict pronounced yesterday by the bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra has definitely shattered the trust of the people in judiciary.

Chennai

Much time and space has been spent by visual and print media on cash shortage experienced in ATMs across the country for the last few days. This surely exposes the poor cash management of RBI. One hopes the problem will be over soon.

But one has to admit that cash transactions in India is very much above the desired level, which is not at all good. There was some push for cashless transactions after demonetisation which seems to have halted. Even big traders prefers cash transactions. Economists, politicians are silent on the importance of cashless transactions and never advice people to adopt it.

There are crores of people of doing cashless transactions. All sections including media should encourage it.

Kannur

With reference to “At party conclave, CPI (M) debates ‘character’ of RSS, approach towards Cong” (April 20). In a way, CPI (M) is right in protecting Kerala — the only State which is in power at the moment. It is time comrades who are in the helm to make effort to change the tack to attract people instead of clinging to primordial ideologies, calling hartals and encouraging the workers to go on snap strike on some ruse. Trade union is imperative to fight for justice but resorting to violence will only result in factories shift to other States.

More importantly, the political scenario in Kerala is that Congress-led UDF will replace CPI-led LDF in the next election. This being so, giving good governance besides fulfilling the promises made in their manifesto will become automatic choice of electorate; the government of the day should crack down on lumpen elements to whichever party they belong to. The idea of CPI (M) West Bengal unit to have truck with Congress is opposed by the Kerala unit for the simple reason that it has to fight elections against each other.

Bengaluru

With reference to ‘Nitish is NDA’s asset’ (April 20), Modi and Nitish are two of the very few leaders/politicians of India who have a clean record without any charges of corruption levelled against them. However it is a pity that instead of coming together and work for the betterment of the people of they were always been at logger heads.

Nitish is one of the few leaders of India with a clean image. However, breaking away from the BJP was one of his main blunders. Fed up with caste and communal politics the people of the nation especially the youth unanimously voted for BJP and Modi in the general elections in 2014. Nitish failed to gauge this mood and fearing that supporting Modi would mean losing the minority vote bank broke away from the BJP which proved suicidal for him. The second blunder committed by Nitish is his joining hands with Lalu Prasad Yadav, who is famous for his caste politics and misrule in Bihar. A seasoned politician like Nitish should realise that India’s 65 per cent population consists of youth who want more jobs, and are least interested in politics based on religion and caste.

Nitish should feel the pulse of the people and work for betterment of Bihar which is one of the poorest states despite being rich in culture, heritage and natural resources. Now both Modi and Nitish should concentrate on good governance and together work to bring in transparency in politics and rid the nation of corruption and graft.

Thane

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