The recent hike in fuel prices comes at a time when the international oil prices are dropping. Government spokesmen claim that the price rise will settle down in three to four months.
This statement basically appears to have been made to confuse the common man. Reading between the lines, it implies that in the next couple of months, we can expect the prices to rise.
This woll be in every aspect after which there will be no further rise. In other words, if the prices do stabilize in three or four months, it will be well and good. Otherwise the government will rely on the short term memory span of the common man.
By then, a new scam may break out or the attention of the public will be diverted elsewhere.If the prices do stabilise, then the Government can always say it had predicted just so.
It will conveniently divert the attention that prices have been rising in the country while it is converse in the international market. The net loser is the common man who will suffer the most.
The UPA government in its second phase appears to be in a constant denial mode prefering to bury its head in the sand like the proverbial ostrich.
Its reaction has been exactly the same in each of the scams that have been unearthed by the vigilant media in the past one year.
It has refused to accept its failures neither in controlling the rot nor in preventing future rot. This was evident in the Kalmadi role in commonwealth games scam, in the CAG report in the 2G scam, then on the 2G scam itself.
The classic reaction or response is evident in the prime minister's role and reaction in the CVC Thomas sacking drama where he made a statement before the parliament that he did not know that P J Thomas was implicated in the Kerala palmolein import case.
We dont know where the present government is headed for but we can say with certainty that wherever it is headed , it spells doom for the country and its country men.
Only God, if at all He exists, can save the country.
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