Modi Govt Image.

Of late every news channel has been airing an opinion that intolerance is at all time high in India today than anytime before.Incidents like Dadri,Meat Ban,killing and attack on writers have been put forward as examples of the same.Accordingly public have aired their opinion depending on which side of the fence one is.Now slowly what has come acrossed is a new development.Those who are politically neutral and who are respected and recognised as leading figures of India have aired their opinion.Eminent industrialists like Narayan Murthy,Kiran Mazumdar Shaw,RBI Governor Raghuram  Rajan,Music meastro Zubin Mehta have come out openly against this pattern and have requested Govt politely to please do something about this.They all feel that this is harming India's image abroad and since PM Modi is doing his best to attract foreign investment,there is every possibility that foreigh investors will feel hesitant to invest in such a horrendous climate of intolerance.
Therefore is it time for the Govt to take suitable steps to arrest such incidents.Definitely.Govt need not be ashamed to acknowledge such happenings rather than living in a state of denial.After all which Govt wants its image to be tarnished.Modi was known to emply experts in creating his image and of his party during elections 2014.Now he can employ the same people to study the image of his Govt and do changes accordingly.Taking the opinion of his bias supporters,admirers and fellow partymen will not give him an objective neutral opinon on his Govt.That will be an attempt in indugling in false praise.Its always prudent to understand an outside opinion about his Govt rather than an inside one.It will be wrong on the part of the Govt to assume that main stream media has always been anti Modi and therefore need not be taken seriously.That's a silly assupmtion because the same media were with Modi during election and supported him whole heartedly.
NDA Govt's second year is in progress and its an year of acceleration like middle overs of ODI cricket.Therefore all strategies,steps,plans need to be created and implemented in this year and next year.After that it will be too late to indulge in coarse correction.Govt and BJP as party needs to create a communication line so that there exists an uniformity in thinking of the Govt and party.At present Govt seems to preach one thing while party preaches opposite.This makes a mockery of the whole Govt-party apparatus.There is a general talk in Delhi circles that after Bihar elections NDA govt will have a major overhaul vis a vis ministries and party functionaries.Till than let us wait and watch.

NJAC-COLLEGIUM TUSSLE

NJAC-Collegium tussle is now out in the open.Its out in public domain.Both sides through experts and lawyers are defending their positions depending on which side they are.Both sides have lawyers and judicial experts of great reputation and eminence.Both sided are basically engaged in identifying the flaws of the opposite sides and therefore defending the need for change.Identifying the positive expect of both the system is just a passing comment not of any immense importance.
What is largely missing the picture is that the discussion per se is restricted purely between NJAC and Collegium.Its been either this or that.How about a third alternative.Has anyone taken pain in arriving at a third consensus.Since both systems have some positive aspects in it how about getting them together and arriving at a third option.The hitch is the law minister.Forget him.How about creating a Commission of only four people.Chief Justice of SC,Senior most Judge,PM and LoP.Let there be a majority of either 4-0 or 3-1 to pass an appointment.Let veto be only with Chief Justice if the decision is 3-1 with CJ dissenting.In this way a middle path could be worked out.
It doesn't make sense to allow judges to judge themselves as well as select themselves.This is against common sense.Judiciary cannot look upon legislature as an incompetent brat who doesn't have the knowledge neccessary to select people of judicial eminence and prominence.In democracy legislature and executive have as much equal importance as judiciary and therefore it does make sense that all three arms of the constitution work together for the welfare of not just the nation but also of individual institutions.At the end of the day public in general will always give more respect to the judges and judiciary than the politicians and therefore the importance and prominence of judiciary will always remain intact irrespective of how the judges have been selected.Cleansing of the system is undertaken purely because the best among the good end up occupying coveted positions followed by those who are good.We cannot afford to place only the good people there and leave out the best because they could not be suitably considered for appointment.

MEDIA INTOLERANCE

Every Indian killed,irresepctive of his religion and who killed whom,is a dastardly act which needs to be condemned by every right thinking India.A murder is a murder no matter what is the motive.Every killing is a law and order problem and needs to be tackled accordingly.The motive can than be used to arrive at a conclusion and case solving.Unforunately of late it has been observed that the motive has been given more importance than the actual killing particularly when people of a particular religion are being attacked and killed.MSM(Main Stream Media) is waiting in anticipation for such news and pounce on it the moment such news come to its knowledge.Northern India and Delhi in particular is quite easily accessible to media channels and therefore it becomes quite easy for them to give full and blown out coverage to such incidents.Any simmilar event happeneing in South or North East is mostly neglected due to distance and lack of connectivity.
As most of the news channels are partners of Foreign media houses such incidents get world wide attention and defame India unnecesarily.An impression is thereby created that India is full of such incidents and that such incidents happen quite regularly and that central Govt is not in a position to stop it and even in some cases supports it.This approach of MSM is not only damaging the name of central govt but also that of the nation for which the media is largely responsible.That's because every such case is than forgotten by the media once the investigation has started and reached to conclusion.If the media feels investigation isn't happening as per their liking,they begin their own pararell studio investigation.Every high profile or so called communal murder is being investigated first by the media and than by the police.
Therefore in conclusion we can say that gone are the days when media was suppose to give us 'News' but is instead giving us its 'Views' which we don't need.Instead we are wise enough to draw our own inference and understand news objectively.