Let's have a CEO to run India...

I am very late with my posts on this subject of the Mumbai attacks. I was flabbergasted with the verbal diarrhea that followed and I am sure, it was the same for you too.

But, it was infectious and here I am posting just another.

What I really liked was the anti-government sentiments that followed the tragedy. People have now lost their patience. I had always wanted something different.

So, I am only surprised that, we, the common man, waited so long. The home minister, the chief minister, the defense minister, the prime minister, the finance minister, all have long lost their credibility for the simple fact that, they are incapable of protecting the lives of the people - let's forget their long-proved inability to protect our financial security. They haven’t been able to protect the most important thing - lives of the people.

I just want to suggest one idea. Instead of these aged and inefficient politicians, let's have a corporate method of ruling.

Let's have a CEO instead of prime minister. Let's have a chief financial officer instead of finance minister. Let's have a chairman of the board instead of the president. Let's have executive vice presidents ruling our states. Let the common man be the shareholder of the country. Let this corporate machinery be answerable to the common man in every manner.

Let's have boardroom battles, let's have deadlines, let's have commitments. Let's be clinical in the way our country is run.

Let's make the country profitable, not a carnage of inefficiency.

Let's get into the business as fast as we can. Let's try to save the remaining lives.

Worthless politicians being traded at a premium; Useless government given a lease of life

Last Friday, we had Bangalore making its dismal entry into the list of world’s terror cities, with Ahmedabad providing the moral support the very next day. More than the shock and awe that these blasts created, what struck me most was the disappointing attitude of our politicians and the government machineries concerned.

First, there were some glaring mistakes committed by the intelligence bureau. Terrorists have already warned you with a blast in Rajastan a couple of months back and the state is ruled by BJP. Rajastan was never in the terrorist list and a blast in the pink city would have put out intelligence agencies and the police on high alert and they should have anticipated blasts in the other BJP-ruling states as well.

It might sound an idea that is a little bit far-fetched. But, then why they are called Intelligence agencies? Where is the intelligence and where do they use it? How can the central agencies wash their hands off saying, they had warned the state governments? Where is the responsibility taken?

Then the Bangalore blast followed and that provided a clear pattern: The BJP-ruling states are under threat. Government took great security initiatives in cities like Delhi and Mumbai, but leaving out Ahmedabad proved to b a costly lapse and terror mocked right on the faces of our security and intelligence establishments with some more intensive blasts.

Clearly, they were caught napping and then the blame game began.

Secondly, our politicians continue to flow crocodile tears when they hear about a blast and they are least concerned for the safety of the common man. In all the news channels, they were eager to “strongly condemn the blasts”. But that is not surprising. In a country, where the politics has turned a big business with people’s representatives being bought over by green bucks, what else can you expect from the political mafia?

I would say, our politicians are, in fact, dangerous than these terrorists!