Sunday, April 6, 2008

Political or Hogenakkal?

The TamilNadu government is constructing a drinking water project at Hogenakkal, with an aid from the Japan Bank for International Cooperation, near the border with its neighbouring state, Karnataka. The Hogenakkal Water Supply and Fluorosis Mitigation Project is expected to benefit about 3 million people. Tensions arose when the politicians from Karnataka, claimed that a 400-acre island at the point where the river Cauvery enters Tamil Nadu to form the picturesque Hogenakkal waterfall is part of their state. It is a pity that even after 60 years after independence, people dispute over state borders. It is also hilarious to note that the state units of the same political party on either states, claim the land to be part of the respective states and blame one another. This clearly shows that the politicians are trying to create and politicize an issue which never existed, in the first place. Then the film industry on either side organized protests and counter protests...Now all of a sudden Chief Minister K, says that the solution should be found in a peaceful manner and wants to hold talks with the new Chief Minister of Karnataka after the elections in May. Pardon me for the satire, what if there is a hung assembly in Karnataka? Who will the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister go and talk to? Caught in the middle of this insanity is the common man. The parties play politics based on issues like water. I say it is trivial. That is because, getting his/her share of water is a right for every human being. We cannot keep on fighting for issues like these. The government always finds prompt solutions for the filmy problems where one state refuses to screen the movies of the other state's language. Yet they have not tried to solve this cauvery issue for the past umpteen number of years. Is it a deliberate ploy on the part of the politicians that when an election is looming, they play vote bank politics and when they form the government, the same ppl forget about the various promises made to the common man? No wonder, even as the literacy rate increases the voter turn out is reducing each and every election. Who said that this was because of the elections being held in Summer or any other reason? I am beginning to believe that the common man is tired of reading much into these fake promises made by the so called protectors of the people. When the politicians are not able to solve the problems of Kashmir, I do kind of agree that these are international issues, involving international bureaucrats and might take time. But when there is so much wrangling going on, between people(politicians) of our own country forget solving Kashmir, the politicians should be ashamed of themselves, should be ashamed that they are a black mark to humanity in itself.

6 comments:

Unknown said...

Just assume the scene where CM K hits the oncoming new CM of Karnataka with a green plastic "KODAM" and he returning the favor with an equally knockable blow. K shouts "Kola Kola. Yebaaaaaa enna kola panraaanga. enna kola panraaanga...."

Brainstormer said...

Hoge-Nakkal!... romba nakkal pannaranga paaa!! ...

@Red Phoenix
Rofl!!! ...

aRoOL said...

arasiyalaa idhellam saghajaappaa.....

prashant said...

I believe that the Chief Minister's reaction was the right one considering the high voltage scenarios that was present in both the states. What it ensured was that innocent people weren't troubled unnecessarily and it was the act of pouring water on fire not for closing it once and for all but to control it for the time being. Also the number of people trying to grab their share in the popularity that can come out of such a volatile situation will come down once there is an assembly in place, however hung it is. Don't u think that a 5 time chief minister knows more about the people than us? :-)

viswajith.k.n said...

wot if the 5 time chief minister was trying to gain political mileage out of the entire scenario? right from when the ball was bowled till the time he declared the innings eh?

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