Focus On Upa Ii: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

What has been dominating the news headlines in the past few days is the completion of one year in office by the UPA Government in its second avtaar

. But the issues that dominated and almost became daily news in the functioning of the UPA-II this past one year were: naxal violence, the Government and the Congress talking in different tones, the Prime Minister not intervening on important issues, even in Parliament and the view that the PM was more focussed on the foreign policy rather than on domestic problems.

In fact, the Naxal attacks this past one year were so ferocious that they are part of the daily news in both print and electronic news. Recently, the headlines said that Naxals blew up a bus killing innocent civilians in Dantewada. If that was not sufficient, the Home Minister, P Chidambaram, hit the headlines when in an interview to NDTV he commented that he was working with a limited mandate.

To add to the confusion of the Naxal chaos was the fact that the Government and the Congress party were talking in different tones. Congress general secretary, Digvijay Singh, launched a scathing attack in a daily newspaper criticising Chidambaram's handling of the Naxal situation. The Environment Minister, Jairam Ramesh, criticized the Home Ministry's handling of clearance to Chinese firms. The two issues again made news headlines for a number of days.

Not a day passed when Naxal violence was not part of the daily news, forcing even the PM to describe it as the single biggest challenge to internal security. The PM did not help the situation by not participating in important debates in the Parliament though his intervention would have helped clarify the Government's stand. This gave an opportunity to the opposition to describe him as a weak PM'. The UPA, therefore, was in news for all the wrong reasons this past one year.

Similarly, in news, the PM was also criticized by analysts for being obsessed with Indo-Pak relation. News headlines often said that if in UPA-I PM was focused on Indo-US relations, in UPA-II it's Indo-Pak relations. But there were some achievements also. Issues like Right to Education hit the headlines highlighting how committed the UPA was to basic education for children. This is a classic example of how, with a little planning, the Government can be in news for the right reason rather than the wrong ones.

by: Mike Jhon Smith

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