K. Subrahmanya in Deccan Herald:
“Under the Third Schedule of the Constitution, a part of the oath of office of secrecy a Union Cabinet rank minister takes while being sworn-in reads thus: “I will do right to all manner of people in accordance with the Constitution and the law, without fear or favour, affection or ill-will“.
“In the course of his visit to Karnataka a few days back, railway minister Lalu Prasad seemed to have wittingly or otherwise, violated this solemn pledge through the words he spoke.
“Not even the gravest of provocations can justify calling any group of people, whether on caste, religion or linguistic lines, “dirty people”…. It is debatable whether Lalu would have found it comfortable to go to the streets of Bombay to defend the poor and hapless north Indians. But he had no qualms about taking on Kannadigas who are normally docile people.”
Read the full article: How does Lalu get away with his dirty tricks?
Raj Thackeray in fact, five years ago, in 2003 did the same thing as the KRV is doing today. Exactly the same thing and accused Biharis of doing exactly the same thing-i.e. advertising in Bihar newspapers, advertising in in Hindi newspapers, bringing candidates from Bihar at government expense-all of the above he has accused Laloo Yadav of doing. He has accused him of doing EXACTLY what KRV is currently accusing Laloo of doing-five years ago.
The only difference is, that at the time, the Subrahmanyas of the world and KRV were silent. Or if not silent, they condemned Maharashtrians for their chauvanism and parochialism and so on. THye condemned them for being lazy and said that all these allegations were baseless-that the Railways advertised in all newspapers (including local ones) and that such allegations were baseless, everyone knew about the exam and that if locals didn’t apply what could they do?
Subrahamanyaavare, check your facts.
I would love see some one do a vijay more on lalu.. the only way to handle these people is the MNS way.
He has no guts…as in courage. His is a shallow bravado and he is nothing but a bully of sorts. I have been watching this man and his rise and rise –his village bumpkin act seems to have fooled one and all. The civilised do not know how to react, the illiterates think he is “one among them” and other politicians suffer him silently. Keep a close watch on him through editorials, leaders, blogs etc. Highlight all his goof-ups and EXPOSE him. Run a ticking clock or a calendar in Karnataka until he apologises, retracts his words. Do not be tricked into being “charmed’ by his churlish behaviour. If he ever visits Karnataka again, make sure huge banners quoting him calling Kannadigas dirty are displayed. Bullies normally back off when their bluff is called.
“At least one MP from Karnataka has found it difficult to accept Lalu’s objectionable remarks. Rajya Sabha member B Janardhana Poojary has written to Prime Minister and also drawn UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi’s attention to Lalu’s commissions and omissions. Poojary has hasn’t asked for Lalu’s head; all he wants is a corrective action on Lalu’s “recruitment scam”. ”
Isn’t there a way to put together a mass petition to the PM based on this to demand an investigation into this? That would give it the publicity it needs and deprive the likes of KRV from gaining notoriety and terrorizing people in the name of Kannadigas’ interest. I don’t really know the logistics or would’ve started it myself.
I am wondering why it took so long for churumuri to write on this issue?? oh, well…may be, I am wrong.
iiily can the Lawless KRV get away by third rate behavious , extortion , blackmail and rowdyism in any other State / country.Not sure.
…and I wonder what the IIM has to say about his HR policies and practices. It was all praises for his ‘management”, if I remember right.
Hello there! I would like you to know that I have not read the article yet but got this little correction on the headline of this article. Your headline reads “…Lalu have guts…” , however you need to use ‘…Does Lalu have the guts’. ‘The’ is a definite article and you just cannot ignore it.
-Abstrakta
There should be protests everytime he comes to Karnataka. But it’s just what’s in the mind of most northies. Unfortunately the only south Indian state that recognised the dangers of Northies is Tamil Nadu. It’s high time for other states to wake up.
Lalu is one brlliant cookie!
The chap even holds a law degree from Benaras Law college, instead of cribbing about his fodder scam or one of his comments, hwy don’t you guys just check out the success he’s achieved in the railway sector? The glass is 75% filled in here so why state that its quarter percent empty? The same issue when it comes to the North Karnataka sanitation facilities at schools, the medical interns always complaint about lack of sanitation facilities there as an excuse against rural internship but hardly anyone bothers to actually contact the KES there and proclaim to be in a noble profession, isn’t butchery more noble than that? all I mean to say is we need to make sincere efforts to make a difference(Not for publicity to kick start a political career for sure) Unless we do something for our nation, do we have any darned right to criticize any person who has done the least he could? a sure NO SIR!
-Abstrakta(After briefly reading the article)
Moreover we Kannadigas are so clean, neat and civilized that we should not give a cracked dime’s worth to any politician’s comment. We Kannadigas are the best and no words by some Lalu Prasad Yadav must or should effect or bother us. We live in the literary land of Karnataka where we have had great personalities like Kuvempu and Basaveshwara and Lalu is not even 1% of Kuvempu or Basaveshwara so forget it! The more we care about Lalu’s words, the more publicity we give him(Negative of course but than helps in politics) so lets justignore him.
@Halasuru
Stop your crass stereotypes and diatribe against North Indians. It does not help anybody or anything. One Laloo does not whole of India make.
If possible, do or suggest something costructive.
Isnt it too much to expect that this idiot knows the constitution?
entire country is suffering because of 2 states, UP and bihar.
politicians have destroyed those 2 state, and instead of developing they encourage migration. why should karnataka ,m aharashtra create jobs for those people at the expense of their poeple.
@Vijay
“Isnt it too much to expect that this idiot knows the constitution?”
Sure is. But he shouldn’t get away pleading ignorance to the law of the land. That plea is not admissible. Some sort of action on the lines of what Hosa-Belaku above suggested or an online petition demanding investigation into the whole thing is the way to go in my opinion.
Anonymous – what is there to investigate further?
Normal or legal methods never work with such people – after all they end up becoming central minister in spite of being criminals. All due to their population.
People like lalu believe in only one thing – jiski laathi uski bhaains. And thats the way to tackle them.
Why are we kannadigas so far behind to react when the problem has already become a cancer? KRV kind of reactions bring false hopes that things are going to be fixed. Same with BIAL , by now all jobs must be allocated and done with while we awaken now to question.Did we question our government or the stakeholders on how locals are getting benifitted in terms of jobs when the project was in progress? So does it apply to jobs in IT & BT .Have even tried to wonder why we have so less of our people in this industry in our own silicon valley. The truth is apart from a few hand full people from Bangalore or Mysore the rest are from AP,TN or the north.It is not hard to infer the kids from AP or TN come from rural areas and some from very remote villages who had their primary education in their native language and made it to Engineering,MCAs or MSc’s and today have the techie jobs.Its the same with Biharis or northies who are resourceful to have the information of jobs. Where are our kannada kids from rural areas? how many make it far? I definetly dont buy that they are happy and content in their respective villages .The truth is these kids from AP or TN have guidance and direction ,maybe have enough power supply to study when the sun goes down.Sadly our kids drop out early from school and settle for driver or office boy kind of jobs.The cause of our woes is defintely more than Biharis and Lalus..
@Annonymous: Point noted and Agreed !!
Hindi speaking people from UP and Bihar are a burden to motherindia…. Its high time that rest of the indians kick them to either bangla,nepal or pakistan so that rest of the indians can live in peace….. those two states contribute about 0.5% to GDP even though they have 25% of india’s population….
Baala mudurkondu ugiskolavru irovargu, ugiyoru ugitane irtare. Ond salaa tirug bidre, muchkondu odi hogtare. Nam janakke (Kannadigrige) ugiskoladu maatra gottu. EnmadaNa??!!
@Shreeram
If they need to kicked out to Pak or Bangla then you need to be kicked out not of just earth but also of the milky way for being such a generalist and discriminator. The reason muslims have become a ‘Large minority’ in India is because of discriminators amongst the Hinduthva clan who fail to respect Hinduism and try to cry out ‘Hindu muslim bhai bhai’. I would like to clarify that I’am not against any religion but extremely PRO HINDUTHVA
@SHREERAM
Please change your name, Shree Ram is the name of the protector of Hinduthva, be it the Kannada, Hindi, Telugu or Tamil speaking people who come under Hinduthva. People like you are only named after Lord Rama, if you cant even follow his principles and start discriminating then please change your name. Today everyone talks about Brahman, Kshathriya and numerous casts and language speaking people, about North and South but why do we forget that on the whole we are all Hindus Living in India, The land of Hinduthva, The land of Lord Rama.
>>hallimeshtru Says:
iiily can the Lawless KRV get away by third rate behavious , extortion , blackmail and rowdyism in any other State / country.Not sure.
I like to know how are you protesting this, apart from ranting in this site. Atleast try to support KRV who are opposing this. Just cribbing sitting in home and also blaming those who oppose does not bear any fruit. By the way, KRV is not indulging in any violence.
@Anonymous Guy:
An investigation by a central agency such as CBI capable of charging and proving repeated contravention of established practices with intention to gain political mileage can force Laloo to resign and may even send him to Jail. More importantly the entire recruitment process will get a re-look and conducted in a fair manner. Isn’t that what the objective is at the end of the day?
I don’t know what the population has to do with crooks such as Laloo getting elected. They get elected either because they indulge in electoral fraud or are able to woo a majority of their electorate, whatever its size.
Jiski laathi uski bhaains is no way to tackle anybody, irrespective of what Laloo and their ilk believe in. At least not in a civilized society we all aspire to live in.
@ otherwise , KRV is not indulging in any violence.
Surely this must qualify without any doubts whatsoever for the JOKE of the CENTURY.Day in and out we see these hooligans vandalising public property , taking law in their own hands and you say they are peacefully protesting.
CBI?
Anonymous give me a break. In spite of the mega-fodder scam of which was investigated ‘thoroughly’ he is a central minister for godssake.
Yes we do aspire to live in a civilized society. And it is obvious that many in Bihar dont.
‘I don’t know what the population has to do with crooks such as Laloo getting elected.’
That is right. An overbreeding population elects its best criminals as their leaders.
It is best we keep out such people from invading our way of life as much as possible.
@Janasamanya
‘Ugiskolodu?’ As a kannadiga I do not consider Lalu worth commenting against a literary group such as ours(Kannadigas). You are either reacting because of some personal grudge or your reaction means that you consider Lalu’s comment more important than the Kannadigara hemme. Lalu is just one central govt employee, but Kannada is a culture and it is stupid to let Lalu’s comment affect us, ignore his comment to show him that we Kannadigas don’t care about his stupid comments, simple!
-Abstrakta
What Lalu said is shameful but what KRV did to national property is worse. They’ve no right to be called true kannadigas when they’re destroying public property built with our money.
Donot fall in the trap of KRV, Lalu, MNS. They’re all the same, working to protect vested interests. Behave like seasoned journalists, at least guide the country well. Be TRUE Indians at least now – after over 60 years of independence. can any one indian state survive alone?
Shreeram (I don’t know in which hole he is hiding, while taking up the name of a great warrior king from Hindi Heartland),
Please refrain from making such comments against UP/Bihar and Hindi speaking folks. Go and check the Bureacracy and you will realize who rules you. Plz accept that the reaction is due to your insecurity.
Biharis/UP wallahs are dominant in Government, Bureaucracy, IIT/IIMs, Crime (unfortunately) All creme de la creme Govt jobs for which there is Competition. It’s only recently (over last 6-7 yrs) that we (read Bihar / UP walle) have started looking at Pvt sector as an option and believe me you will be dominated by us there as well. There are a lot of Biharis / UP walle whom you won’t know as to where they come from as they are dispersed all across. We are brave, enterprising, friendly and accomodative people and by nature Dominate at whatever level we operate (Laborers on one end to Top shot achievers on the other). Unfortunately we never thought like being Biharis or UPwallas as one identity. In fact I could recall right from the childhood that all of us never thought Bihar / UP as different from Indian Identity (I am a UP walla raised in Bihar) We are too free and individualistic / caste ridden that way.
I have great regard for Karnataka and Kannadigas as they are very nice and gentle and loving people.
But do not try to harass poor folks from Hindi region as the only reason they keep quiet is because all they want is to work hard and earn so that they can take care of a kid / spouse back at home. But believe me the day MNS / Raj Thakerey or folks like that cross the line, I am sure they will regret messing up with these folks.
We people are best friends for friends (can give a lot for friends) however worst enemies for enemies
By the way where were you folks when close to 10000000 (read 1 crore) people from Hindi region (read UP / Bihar) gave up their lives in 1857 (a new book released has these figures). This is the unofficial figure confirmed now. Where were you folks – taking up clerical jobs in the British Govt….Realize that you owe your independence to us and while maximum PMs have been from UP, they never thought they are PM for UP, rather they took a NATIONALISTIC view…That is the greatness of the region called Hindi Heartland..
I will quote from one of the legendary poets (Dinkar) from Bihar –
“”Adhikaar kho kar baith rahana yeh maha duskarm hai
Nyayarth apne bandhu ko bhi dand dena dharm hai”” – This means ‘ The worst shame is to keep quite after losing one’s rights….It’s one’s Dharma to punish even your own brother for Justice”””
I am sure this will happen one day sooner. Even Lord Krishna didn’t touch Shisupala till his 100th misdeed
COOL IT BUDDY – You folks in Karnataka earn because of Biharis / UP waala as all your engineering / Medical colleges have been full of we folks who shell out Loads of money and donate to the colleges !!! Yes I remember way back in Late eighties (I was a kid then) when some of local (read south & Karnataka) folks accompanied one of my relatives who was studying in Karnataka (Medical) to Bihar they were given royal treatment at my place and our family sponsered a trip across Bihar for them (of course they had curiosity to see folks with arms etc. and even that desire of theirs fulfilled). In fact they were drunk once and created ruckus and our folks had to protect them as well from unwanted elements
Samrendra!
While I do not want to be part of Bihari bashing going on in this site, I do not agree with you that only the Hindi belt fought against the British.
Before 1857 there was a strong Jambudweep confederation of Southerners fighting against the British. We also lost thousands of our heroes and heroines in the battlefronts. It was only after the defeat of the Southern confederation in 1803 that the mutiny in North took place. The Vellore mutiny is another revolt by the Indian regiments against the British overlords.
Then lets come to INA and the people who joined it, other than the POWs of the British Indian Army, the South Indians living in Malaya and Burma joined in full force, including women. The Rani Jhansi brigade was led by Dr Laxshmi ( now Laxshmi Shegal of AIDWA ). The brigade of women consisted of women from South India only. Lt Gen.Loganathan an alumini of RBNAMS school in Bangalore was also an important commander and the first Commisioner of Andaman & Nicobar islands in the liberated India.
While most of the North Indian soldiers were loyal to their own regiment and its honour it was South Indians civilians who rallied behind Subash Chandra Bose.
Read the history first, don’t read the cooked up history written by some dumb idiot parroting after history written by the British.
Jai Hind, Jai Karnataka
The root cause of all the problems is low representation of Kannadigas in all the sectors-IT,BT manuf etc. Whichever govt that takes over next has to ensure 90% job resvn for Kannadigas. Else, there is no point in inviting these inds. to Karnataka. Why any govt invites investments? The main objective is to ensure jobs for locals. If that is not happening, why v need these inds? for fun?. We spend crores of money on infra str. of Blore, ignoring other cities and rural areas. But no jobs? nowhere in the world this happens. Karnataka has done enough charity for outsiders. Now, let’s stop this. Now the onus is on the next govt. as it shud not look at only saving their kurchi. Now the voice is becoming loud and clear, irrespective of their background everyone is saying Kannada and culture shud be supreme in our state. Remember CNR Rao’s comment in OUTLOOK magazine? No Kannadiga is happy abt the developments in Blore. These issues shud be addressed at the earliest, else situation may reach a point of no return.