When Mr. Pranab Mukerjee chided his cabinet colleagues S.M.Krishna and Shashi Tharoor for staying in a five star hotel and working for the development of still developing India they vacated the premises and shifted to less appealing government guest houses but not before they clarified that they were paying for the five star luxuries from their own pockets.

Good but don’t they realise one thing they have joined the system to change it for better and as such they have the moral duty to join it in totality even less than one percent can enjoy the luxuries of high living so why not live like ordinary Indians and feel their joys and pains than only you can really serve them.

“Laws, what Laws, I am the law” seems to be the clear cut message that BSP Supremo Mayawati is giving to the nation. She wants to give a clear picture that Supreme Court is for the rest of the nation She, well, she is Supremo herself. One thing about Mayawati is you can love or hate her but you cannot ignore her.

One has to admire her guts. She has just ignored repeated injunctions by the Supreme court to halt her statue making spree but no where has the work stopped even for a single minute leave aside a single day.

It seems that Maya has taken upon herself with vengeance, of course, to pay back the higher caste for the atrocities they have committed on lower caste and perhaps with her statues all over are a clear reminder of that and with the ever present purse she wants to emphasize the fact that money is power and she has them both.

As for the austerity drive few would have known about the proposed Good Will visit to Greece and Egypt by 12 members committee belonging to different parties which was to be headed by the Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal has been called off.

One tends to think that since the call was given by Congress Supremo Sonia Gandhi what better way to come in her good books. But than why plan these trips was the drought situation a sudden occurrence? Secondly what better way of keeping every member happy,take everyone irrespective of the party they belong to, after all if required may be their vote of confidence may be helpful in future.

When the planned trip was not publicised why publicise its cancellation?