In spite of the legality of the project being cleared twice—once by the High Court and once by the Supreme Court—the H.D. Kumaraswamy government continues to play with the Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor project. The government now wants to move a Bill, rather hilariously titled “Streamlining the Infrastructure, Utilisation and Reforms Bill”, that will enable it to take over the project from its promoters, Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprise.
Questions: Is the Kumaraswamy government, acting clearly at the behest of former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda, playing with fire? Is it trying to protect the interests of farmers by planning to reacquire the 2,450 acres of “excess land” that have been allotted to NICE, or is it really using the Assembly as a backdoor to have its way? Should the BJP go along or should it say no, even if it means the fall of the coalition government? Will such a Bill permanently scare off investors because you are never ever sure if your project is on or off?
Govt should keep Investors in mind while passing such Bill. H.D.Deve Gowda former Prime Minister should not interfere in state politics.
The most troubling aspect of Indian politics today is the ease with laws are made to protect, promote, shield and safeguard individual politicians. Arjun Singh’s proposal for 27 per cent reservations was made chiefly to circumvent the Supreme Court. The office of profit bill was moved chiefly to save Sonia Gandhi. And now, this infrastructure bill in Bangalore. Instead of working the law, our politicians are making the law work for them. It’s quite clear that Deve Gowda & Family treats the high court and supreme court rulings in the BMIC case as an affront to their wisdom and sagacity. But should the State pay the price for it?
This is a classic case of Remote control a.k.a. Shivasena party supremo Lord Bal Thackery in Mahrashtra. Our former prime minister and his cronies have invested huge sums of money in the land close to where the land is being acquired and will be under loss if this ever happens.
Therefore, wielding remote control, our dear humble sleeping former farmer prime minister has suddenly woken up to this harsh reality. One way or the other, he wants to have his vengence for ‘being stripped naked’ (remember his statement in Shekar Gupta’s Walk the Talk?) by the supreme court. We are all there to see the results. This is just a shady way of swindling public money – by such politicians. If ever the government signed something earlier and some one else made money out of it, why crow now? After all, we know how our humble former farmer MP gave a certificate to erstwhile congress government that his daughter-in-law was an unemployed graduate – just to get a petrol bunk allotted in her name in bargain for supporting PVN’s government. Now, he is coming back to teach morality to us. Take that!!!
Coming back to the issue, it is quite obvious that the partner in the government (BJP) doesn’t want to venture into these kind of gimmicks. I am sure, if challenged, this law can be called unconstitutional by Supreme Court. Let the government call the party involved (NICE in this case) and re-negotiate if at all they feel that there are abnormalities. Taking over such a project will only prove fatal and also dent the image of the government and the state. A via media solution would be the best thing to happen in my view.
When the project was planned and the MOU signed, the extent of land required and its useage would have been delibrated. It is ridiculous that Chikka Muddhe is now talking about passing a bill to reclaim the excess land, that too, after both HC and SC have rapped the govt on its bungling. It proves only one thing that Chikka Muddhe is plainly dancing to the tunes of Dodda Muddhe. It is just political vendetta against a company which has refused to fall in line with the Muddhes. The reason given out that this is being done to protect the interest of the humble farmer is just that – a false alibi. The Muddhes’ are the biggest land grabbers. They know the value of the land adjoining the BMIC corridor and they want to have a big pie – by hook or crook. Come to think of this – Big Muddhe is against Bangalore Metro, he wants a Mono in its place even though he claims that the project was approved during his tenure. Now he is unabashed supporter of the Mono rail, Why? He is against BMIC now, a project which he claims was approved by him. Big Mudde has time and again claimed that all infrastructural big projects are approved by him but why is he scuttling them? The Muddhes’a are regressive and anti development. How can they decide what the people should have and shouldnot have? Instead of creating a congenial investment climate and nurturing the investment in this state, they are practising witch hunting, be it IT or Non-IT industry. Chikka Muddhe initially said 100 days, now he wants some more days.. to show his performance and what about Dodda Muddhe, his so called contributions during his CM days and PM days are too well known. The Muddhes very presence is seriously harming the investment climate and the growth of industry in Karnataka. They are running the govt as though it was their private property, it is sad that people like Sindhia, Prakash are just mute spectators. As for the BJP, it is make hay while the sun shines and fight like street dogs. They have proved they are no better than any of the other outfits.
Le thamma Kirana..Muddhena yaakayya heena maadthya..Neenu Mudhe thindhanae beldhidhya annu..aadru Mudhe yesto janarige mrustanna…
Thinnu annakke belae koddhavnu yinnu thaynaadige yenu belae kotya…aa vishya berae.
Yillirovru yella kanda mommkalange mathadthare…mathadkalli…
naanu namma kannection kalappa jothe swalpa aata aadtheeni
The whole pernicious practice of unleashing political vendetta by the Demons of our Democracy is because of the failure of our judiciary in protecting the principle of Natural Justice and in believing that MALICE cannot be attributed to an act of Sovereignty! This could be have been an ancient wisdom when the nations were ruled by a Sovereign Monarch who was the fountainhead of all that he surveyed. A democratically elected Government cannot be attributed with divine sovereign power and cannot be absolved of MALICE. Starting from the abolition of Privy purse to Backward class reservation MALICE is writ large in all enactments and it is time SC scythes open the wail of sham public good and go’s behind the circumstances and political canard behind any legislation and strike down such legislation where even a lingering attribute of MALICE can be found as unconstitutional
Jeevarathna..nimma baravanige abbaabba…yella Dodda maathu Dodda maathu. Adbidhe…
Nodona mundakke yee KANTRAVERSY yellige hoythadhe antha..
Nice Companygu DKSi gu Link anthae houdha oOAWWOo
Yes, such a bill will definitely scare off the prospective investors. See what happened to Wipro, Infosys and FabCity. Now it looks it is the turn of Kheny to face more wrath from the croonies of the former PM, who signed the very first agreement with NICE for the project.
Swami Dheerendra Gopalare,
Thinno Anakke, padhaarthakke maryadhe athava bele kodadhava neecha naanalla, Aa thaayi Annapoorneshwari nenedhu thinnuthene. Haageye, Muddhe thindu beledhavanu, muddhe ee naadalli yesto janarige mrustanna antha kuda balle…
Mannina maga, humble farmer, raagi muddhe soppina saaru antha yella kade helkondu thirugadavaru, maado kelasa yenthahudu? avaru maadthiro nataka yenthahudu..adhara bagge chintane… Thinno mudhe ge avamana maduthilla. Nimagidhu arthavaagdhe idre, Nimma kannection kalappa na aata aadkondu keli ;)
Apparently Gowda said today that he will cut off his own neck if anyone can prove his personal interest in the project. I am right now praying that some one does prove it!
We all know Gowda makes promises he cannot keep. This is one more…
Its just like no one can prove “Deve Gowda Petrol Bunk” is not his .. :-)
Since Kheny has signed an international contract, it will be impossible to chnage the terms of the contract retroactively. Karnataka government will end up paying for the mistakes of our politicians just like we did it in the case of Dhabol. There was nothing Maharastra government could do to renegotiate the contract Enron had signed.
Karnataka government will be a laughing stock. It is only the corrupt companies who know how to buy the politicians will invest here. That is what our politicians also want. Thus it is a win win situation for politicians. But it is a disatser for the rest of us. But in our democracy public interest is of little consequence.
Unfortunately, it is the govt which ahs created the mess in the first instance. The agrement stipulated that the contents should not be made public. In this era of transparency, it is inefnsible ,unethical and legally untenable and yet this aspect has never been highlighted. The Executive summary of the project says that the existing highway should not be improved. What audacity And govt worth its salts can agree to such imposition. This shows waht clout Mr Kenny. During the presentation in Mysore he said with flambouance that other s have derived the benfit while he has not received the salary for 11 years! That speaks volumes why he has had his way all along. That shows the clout of Mr Kenny the MD of NICE Secondly, Mr Kenny is extremel a clever operator and effectively manoeveured himself into a winnig position by introducing all clauses of the agreement in his favour. Yes it is fact that he has cornered the excess land in and around Bangalore on specious arguments. It is literallya golden egg.If both HC and SC have given a verdict in his favour either the govt have not presented the case properly or the courts have chosen to ignore it. The result is the present mess. The alternative now suggested is certainly has great merit but has come at heavy price.Taking back the excess land is by no means easy. Whatever be the personal considerations of the big politicians the principle of returning the land to the poor farmers is right this time.
NICE is awarded a contract to build a road and sell in Townships after the road is fully complete. It is obvious that in any BOOT project, the promoter has to invest his money first for the complete project and later recover over a period of time. It is important for all ELITE AND EDUCATED PEOPLE to check if NICE has invested any money on its own or have borrowed money from the Banks by mortgaging lands acquired from farmers by the Government.
All enlightened citizens should pause for a while and reflect on the ruckus created by residents in Indiranagar for the Metro project. If a citizen with 30X40 site, a stable employment can feel cheated, what about the state of a farmer whose land is acquired, mortgaged, funds raised and a private company makes money for 30 years with no investment.
If this is acceptable and enforced, then any Company can get any property acquired by the government and make a BOOTY under the Indian constitution.
Citizens with vehicles should take note of this!! instead Government can borrow money from bank and repay based on Toll collection over 30 years without acquiring any lands for townships.