Monday, February 20, 2006

51 Crores for a dead man's head

The immature announcement made by a minsiter of UP government on the Prophet cartoon row would have shaken everyone in the world, even some in his own community.

Does the minister know how many zeros are there in a crore? In one of my earlier article on the Sethu Samudram project, I have explained in detail the simple mathematics. Let us take the practical situation when some one actually kills the Danish cartoonist and produces the head (dripping with blood) to the minister. Now, the question comes on how he will give the reward. I am sure the salaried and lower class people in India would certainly raise their eye-brow on the money the minister should be having to announce such a huge reward. Apart from that, he is also giving equivalent weight in gold to the man who is performing this brilliant work.

These kind of childish statements by a minister shows that he wants to keep his community people provoked and their focus diverted from critical day-to-day issues that are pending to be addressed in the state. Let the people be awake and not waste their time by following his advice.

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