Wednesday, March 02, 2005

Role of an opposition party....

The role of oppositions is funny and they make themselves funnier with their act. When a party takes the opposition seat, they believe their sole task is to oppose any reforms or agenda put forward by the ruling. So whenever any issue is put forward by the ruling party our opposition has to (as if it is mandated) step forward and oppose the same without even knowing the details of it or making any calculations to find out if the reform is good or bad, will it really affect the country’s economy or will it give a significant boost to the socio-economy infrastructure of India?
Take for example the new budget proposal, almost all industrialists is speaking in favor of the budget but our opposition (BJP) chose to take a separate stand. The funny part there is no common voice among the party leaders. Vajpayee shares his opinion about the budget, saying "salaried people have to pay more taxes". But his fear is contradicted in Yashwant Sinha’s statement "His tax concessions both on direct and indirect side do not justify his budget estimate for the next year" meaning the government will not be able to pull out enough taxes from the general mass (majority of which belongs to the salaried class) with the suggested tax reforms. This is stupidity, the party should do some research do some calculations and then they should decide whether or not they should criticize the reforms proposed.
I am not against BJP here, even the Congress or any other party behaves the same way when they take up the seat of opposition. Why they behave so? Whom are they trying to fool? Why can’t they be rationale in their thinking?

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