Ten Questions for Congress

Reproduced below is my mail to Mr. Jairam Ramesh, Coordinator, Election Related Affairs, Indian National Congress.

My criterion for evaluation of the present government.

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From: P R Chandna

To: Jairam Ramesh

Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 9:07 AM

Subject: TEN QUESTIONS

Dear Mr. Jairam,

In continuation to my e-mail as below, I am giving below ten questions for you to provide me with the answers.

TEN QUESTIONS

1.                How would your party align with the people at bottom of the pyramid?

2.                How would your party engage yourself with people at the ”Bottom of Pyramid”?

3.                What are your policies to provide good education to their children?

4.                What are your policies to provide jobs to them?

5.                How would your party going to provide wellness facilities to them?

6.                What policies of your party would provide a good quality life to them?

7.                How would your party empower women

8.                What are your policies to attract 400 million youth under 25 years in the country?

9.                How would you align & engage with these youths?

10.          How would you provide to them corruption less & transparent environment for them to develop & grow fearlessly in the country?

In case your party can answer these questions favorably, you are the wineer.

With Best Regards

P R CHANDNA

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From: P R Chandna

To: Jairam Ramesh

Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 5:55 PM

Subject: Re: Five Big Questions on the BJP's Manifesto of Omission

Dear Mr. Jairam Ramesh,

Good work done will always speaks. However, you need to caution yourself wrt the recent financial crisis and the reasons there off. In case you are able to address these issues then rest assured for the results. You need to keep your eyes on the " Bottom of the Pyramid" and they will take care of you.

All the best and keep it up.

With Best Regards

Your's

Pushkar

----- Original Message -----

From: Jairam Ramesh

To: prchandna@hotmail.com

Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 8:02 AM

Subject: Five Big Questions on the BJP's Manifesto of Omission

Dear Friend,

I hope you have had a chance to glance through our Party's manifesto that I sent you earlier.

While you make your important voting decision, I wanted to bring to your attention five big unanswered questions in BJP's election manifesto 2009.

Question 1: Will the BJP abolish the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGA) scheme that is providing employment to crores of poor households across the country, while generating tangible public assets?

Question 2: Why is the BJP manifesto silent on the role of the public sector? Is it because it wants to continue its policy of indiscriminate and non-transparent privatization by stealth?

Question 3: Why is the BJP's manifesto bereft on any ideas on industrial development? Is the BJP intellectually bankrupt on ideas for the industrial development of India?

Question 4: Does the BJP have any tangible plan on agricultural loan waiver beyond the vague statement .Waive Agricultural Loans. that adorn its manifesto? Or is it promising to do something that the Congress-led UPA government has already done?

Question 5: How exactly does the BJP propose to .improve upon the POTA.? What more will it do that goes beyond the strong anti-terror law . the amended UAPA . that the Congress-led UPA government has already enacted?

We believe that these questions must be answered by the BJP in order that the electorate has a clearer choice. The attached link is a short note on these unanswered questions.

5 Big questions on the BJP Manifesto

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Best Regards,
Jairam Ramesh
Coordinator, Election Related Affairs,
Lok Sabha Elections 2009, Indian National Congress
jairam@congress.org.in