HON’BLE FINANCE MINISTER – AN AMAZING COMBINATION OF SUPERLATIVE FINANCIAL SENSE AND POLITICAL NONSENSE

It is an unquestionable fact that our Honourable Minister of Finance, Govt. of India, is a financial wizard in its widest of definitions. But unfortunately his Political immaturity puts his financial wizardry to shame.

In a very recent example, he delivered a speech during his campaign for the Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu, wherein he stated that it is definitely financially possible to give Rice at Rs. 2/- per kilogram in the Ration Shops and free Colour Television to every family in Tamil Nadu.

A veteran parliamentarian rightly asked as to why then the Hon’ble Finance Minister not distribute free Colour Television to every family in the country. Here I would like to add another question that if it is viable for the Indian Government to sell rice at Rs. 2/- per kg then does it mean that all these years the Indian Government have been making profits by selling rice at a higher price.

It is a shame for Indian Democracy that even after more than 50 years of its existence we neither have matured politicians who talk about guiding the country to a bright future during their election campaign nor have matured voters who would declare to these politicians that they are no longer kids to be happy with Colour TVs and lollypops and instead look forward to electing a leader who can create avenues for the voters to participate in the development of the country and proudly EARN their decent living.