The speed bumps and potholes in our progress.

Yesterday a High Court Judge in Karnataka criticised the government for collecting extra taxes on cars when there are 156 speed bumps on the road between Bengaluru and Mysuru and people are breaking their backbones because of potholes. Karnataka has a Congress government. Roads are a reflection of India's progress in the 67 years after independence. The letter of resignation from the Congress Party, written by Ms Jayanthi Natarajan, Minister of Forests and Environment from July 2011 to December 2013, to Sonia Gandhi, President of the Congress, vividly illustrates why our progress has been so poor. The letter is long, full of self-justification and constantly repeats her loyalty to the party. Not a word about loyalty to the nation or the people of India. Two sentences are particularly revealing and shocking. When she was sacked as minister the then Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh told her," Jayanthi, I have been told by Congress President, that your services are required for party work." Surely, the Prime Minister chooses his cabinet and only he decides who will serve as minister but Mr Singh was merely a messenger for Ms Gandhi, meekly obeying any order to hang on to his post. Ms Natarajan writes," I received specific requests [which used to be directives for us] from Shree Rahul Gandhi and his office forwarding environmental concerns in some important areas and I took care to honour those ' requests '." She held back 350 files which had already been cleared. Why did she take orders from Mr Rahul Gandhi, and what about her oath to bear ' true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of India '? Another woman, Foreign Secretary, Sujatha Singh has been asked to take early retirement because she ran her own foreign policy, repeatedly embarrassing the Prime Minister. Over the last 67 years we have been repeatedly humiliated by China and Pakistan who are occupying large tracts of our land because of our policy of submission. That is because there are people who support Chinese power over us while others point to the advantages of kowtowing to China, forgetting to mention that the cockroach-eaters despise those they consider weak. Why was it alright for Indira Gandhi to add socialism and secularism to the preamble of the constitution during the dark days of the Emergency and why is it wrong to remove them now? As for the Italian marines they dare not be jailed because they are Italian and they cannot be freed because the Congress maybe blamed. Perhaps we should allow them to escape and then let the CBI fellows travel to all the fleshpots of the world, looking for evidence, as they did with Quattracchi. At least they will have a good time.