This is India...Inspite of their state revaged by floods,there are certain sections of the Punjab Government who are a part of the "Study Tour" To Scotland..
No,No...They aren't studying the cultural heritage of SCOTLAND,they are actually on a study tour to know how the world famous "Scotch" is distilled...
Now that's why the term "Junket" was coined...Not only this,the government seems to have SO much worries in its mind other than the floods damaging the public property,the crops & the lives!!Problems such as pollution levels around the distilleries in the state!!We could have understood this deed by a nonsensical person,but the irony is that the person leading such a delegation is SPEAKER of the Punjab assembly-Mr.Nirmal Singh Kahlon..
I wonder,when will they return to sanity?The country is entangled in plethora of difficulties from Kashmir issue,to Punjab Floods to Naxalite problem...and this is the way our politicians act!!Getting HIGH?
On the other hand,the so-called "CONSTRUCTIVE OPPOSITION" too is busy raking up this issue,making ruckus out of it when the need is to act on Humanitarian Grounds...This is what Capt. Amarinder Singh,The Ex. CM of Punjab & State Congress Chief had to say about the Issue-"
"I don't know who has given the idea to the Speaker to do this. He is also on the trip but the pollution board, on the other hand, says it's all rubbish - there is no pollution around the distilleries in Punjab. It's you and me, the tax payers, who have to pay for it. But it's a nice holiday for them"...
It is understandable that Mr. Singh would be hugely disappointed at not having an opportunity to taste Scotch at wold's finest distilleries or WINE at world's finest vineyards...But surely the political "HOODWINKING" has started....The Potshots have grown magnanimously to an extent that we have lost our focus away from main problems plaguing the country at the moment..The calamity that has struck Punjab & Haryana!The Kashmir calamity...The death of 10 people in Punjab!You and Me are paying the taxes to these "freaks" who are "feasting" on it!
Here is the icing on the cake,Manoranjan Kalia,The Minister for Industries cited this reason for the Excursion-
"Pollution is also a big problem, it is a grave problem. We are trying our best to have good environment and ecological balance; everyone should work in this direction - government as well as social. That is why the group has undertaken this study tour,"...
These are the very people whom we elect and send to the upper echelons of our Political system...And these are the very people who value their leisure over the deaths of the innocent people...This is India...Where Politics takes a different dimension!
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