Mamata's exit from UPA II

The West Bengal the Chief Minister,  Smt. Mamata Banarjee, being an honest and upright person, has had the guts to tell the Dr. Manmohan Singh’s government that her party will pull out of the coalition unless the government withdrew the anti-people “reform measures€ announced unilaterally, especially 51 percent FDI in multi-brand retail trade, under pressure from foreign multinational retail giants and the American and European Union governments. As stated by this commentator, again and again, the some leaders of the Indian government and a set of high level officials with the same mindset as that of their masters have, for various reasons, fallen prey to the constant lobbying by the multinational retail giants. Dr. Singh and his companions in the government as well as the bureaucrats know very well that FDI in multi-brand retail will do more harm than benefit to the people. Mamataj's statement that the FDI decision was unveiled only to divert attention from the coal blocks allocation controversy involving the government is entirely correct. It is hoped that the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party, both of which extend outside legislative, will also apply reason and withdraw support to the UPA II regime, which has become an embodiment of corruption, scandals, scams and frauds. It is hoped that Mamataji will not retract from the decision! Moreover, the public image of the Manmohan Singh Government is at the lowest ebb. As long as the Communist Parties were supporting UPA I from outside, they were balancing the function of the government. The number of scams, scandals and frauds good were very low and the looting of public money was not on a massive scale witnessed today during UPA II, bereft of Communist Parties. Dr.Manmohan Singh has proved to be very weak in ensuring good governance by the present government. The number of mindbogglingly scandals and scams such as “Spectrum scandal” and Coalgate scam” involving the loss of lakhs of crores of rupees to the exchequer and bribe of thousands of crores of rupees as bribe to the politicians, bureaucrats and middlemen, have shattered the faith of people on Dr. Manmohan Singh Government and the government headed by him (UPA II). Moreover, Dr.Singh seems to have fallen into the trap of lobbying by the multinational corporations, especially of USA, either directly or under pressure from his mentor, the Congress President. His continued maneuvering for FDI in retail is a case in point that he has yielded to pressure form the vested interests. The general perception is that the UPA government should go out sooner than late.
 Dr.  Murukadas , The Times of India, Sep.2012.