Do you know, What God is thinking now?

He will be thinking about how M.Karunanidhi, D.M.K party president will fufill his electoral promises, if he comes to power.

Have you heard the recent electoral promises of M.Karunanidhi, President of D.M.K. for the upcoming assembly elections in Tamil Nadu.

For those who have not heard about that, here are they

We will provide

• Quality rice at two rupees per kilo

• FREE colour TV for all households that do not have one

• FREE gas stoves to poor women

• MATERNITY assistance of 1,000 rupees for three months before delivery and three months after delivery

• WAIVER of all co-operative loans to small and marginal farmers

• FREE power to weavers

• TWO acres of land for each poor farmer

• THREE hundred rupees per month to every unemployed person.

If DMK after coming to power tries to implement even 50 per cent of its promises the State will coffers be empty in a jiffy.

Giving rice at Rs. 2 alone will add a deficit of 3000 crores to the state budget. How are they going to manage it?

Then giving TV to all households without one is another absurd promises I believe. The manifesto states like this "Provision of colour TV sets to every family for women's recreation and general knowledge". How providing Television sets will improvknowledgege?

It is just a stunt to expand the penetration of the party's cable channel Sun TV.

The list doesn't end there, another most glaring fact is providing two acres of land to poor farmers. Where will Karunanidhi get lands for so many people?

At no point in the manifesto there is a mention of how the finances are going to be handled.

Does Karunanidhi think we are idiots?

I am not saying Jayalalitha is a one of the honest persons on this world. I am also not campaigning against D.M.K., just venting out my thoughts. Please do sit back and think about it.

A good comedy by the Central Government

The Indian government has RS. 40 crores on the Bollywood stars for an eleven-minute show at closing ceremony of recently concluded Commonwealth games in Melbourne.
My friend Subramoni, bought to my notice this blog.

It is a quite interesting piece.

Really a good joke to see the Indian Government spend for bollywood stars instead of sports persons for sports.

Sadly, no incentive or cash bonus has been announced for the medal winning sports persons in the commonwealth games. The 40 crores spent here could have been used as cash bonus for the athletes.

BCCI is doing something good

In yesterday's The Hindu , the following article regarding BCCI's plan to boost other sports appeared.

It was quite heartening to see BCCI trying to help sports persons from games other than cricket. With the money they are making, it is economically viable. What it needs for a thing like this to be done is a bigger heart and BCCI have shown they have one.

Let us see how far it reaches out.

Irrespective of how this is going to materialize, BCCI must be lauded for this gesture.

This doesn't happen often...

After the Australian received ICC trophy for the best Test team and ODI team of the year, barely any would have dreamt in the wildest of wildest dreams that the Aussies will be trying to avoid follow on against one of the minnows of Cricket in two days. But that's what has happened in Australia's 1st test against Bangladesh.

Call it a miracle or anything, the Bangladeshi's are giving Aussies a run for their money.

Electing to bat, Bangladesh made a mammoth 427 in their first innings. World's highest wicket taker, Shane Warne got clobbered around for 112 runs in 20 overs that too without a wicket.

The funnier part was that Australia went into the match with five bowlers Lee, Clark, Gillespie, Warne and Macgill. Still they were unable to prevent Bangladesh from posting a big total at an healthy run rate of 3.46.

When it was the Aussies turn to bat, everybody expected there might be a world record score since the pitch seemed to be a batting beauty. But what awaited was even worse, half the team was inside the dressing room with the score at 79. Shane Warne departed at 93, then Gilchrist and Brett Lee salvaged some pride with a stand of 52.

Aussies need another 83 runs to make Bangladesh bat again, let us see what happens today.

The fact that the man who has been instrumental for this turnaround is another Australian Dav Whatmore tells the tale about Australia's hold over cricket nowadays. He has made an impact with every team he goes, first he bought World Cup glory with Sri Lanka and now inspiring the Bangladeshi's. Hope the so called minnows turn into a reasonable figure in World Cricket and make the world of cricket more interesting.