BAPU SATYANARAYANA writes: Willy-nilly and for what it’s worth, Pratibha Patil‘s election as President of India has come to symbolise “women’s empowerment” in the 60th year of our country’s freedom from the British.
But what of the rest of the women folk?
What, for example, of India’s number one woman police officer, Kiran Bedi?
In ignoring her seniority, in ignoring her record, and in overlooking her credentials for the post of Commissioner of Police, Delhi, in favour of a rank junior, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government has only exposed its empty rhetoric of “empowering women”.
Bedi’s fulmination against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is justified and only shows how far the PM has fallen from grace, and how increasingly his words carry little credibility. What could be more revealing than Bedi being shown the door despite her legitimate claims on the very day Patil was taking over despite all the question marks?
The overlooking of Bedi for the post is an issue that women’s organisations should take up, first and foremost. Hopefully, Bedi herself will take the fight to the “enemy camp”—the UPA government, inhabited by a pathetic and emasculated bunch of hangers-on whose only qualification is loyalty to the President of the Congress party over everything.
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Women empowerment is a carpet used to push unholy acts and nothing more…. No honest women can ever support blatently corrupt and orginary politician Prathibha Patil in the name of women empowerment….
– Manmohan Singh is becoming big joke….he has turned out be Nehru family servent more than learned person who has to lead the country….. Just because, he is a good economist (and not-corrupt on financial aspects directly), no need to see him as holy-guy interested in country’s progress
Once again, thru Kiran Bedi’s case, UPA/Congress has proved that only criteira for them is someone who will-fall-on-feet like boneless creature. Rest (merit, wowen-empowerment etc. ) all bs
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It is the Prathisthaapana of the Main deity. There are other utsava murthys in India which will be and has to be taken in procession in a grand manner. It is the empowerment of the people who carry on these utsavas and they will be in limelight.
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What else can we expect from Manmohan Singh? Girija Vyas, as chairman of Commission for women was heard making sime feable noises. Of course we cannot expect her to say anything against Madam. Surely it was madam who said no to Kiran Bedi
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Sonia & Manamohan want a rubber stamp at all levels for their convenience- Next EC, Present President, CP Delhi, Governers- Goa – who went back from the airport, and many others.
But our people want the same setup every where. Spine less lot are our so called MP’s. Can some one else like before start a revelution!?
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This has reference to the news item that Kiran Bedi, one of India’s most decorated police officers, was denied the top post of Delhi’s Police Commissioner. Coming as it does close on the heels of ‘electing’ a controversial woman Prathibha Patil as the first woman President of India on sheer political considerations overlooking merit this news of ‘selecting’ “someone junior’ overlooking Kiran Bedi’s seniority and merit is disturbing indeed. The plank of Empowerment of Women on which Prathibha Patil was elected was given a clean go-by in Kiran Bedi’s case. In both the cases merit has been a casuality. The Government seems to follow expediency instead of following a principled policy with regard to elections and selections. May be the Government of India is thinking that the policies are the monopoly of the Life Insurance Corporation of India!
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