Re: The Official Fuel Prices Thread Quote:
Originally Posted by vharihar The things you mention happened in 60 years. This govt is trying to build several things in a very short time, its been just 7 years since it came in power. Don't you have any sense of time? There are several firsts in this govt, such as a 8-lane 1500 km expressway, bullet-train project, proliferation of metro construction in a zillion cities, etc, all of which in active construction. And oh BTW, AIIMS's, IIM's and IIT's are still being constructed. I don't want to derail this group, hence not sharing. There are pics from infra-nerds on Twitter.
Sample this: It took a Nitin Gadkari under the Modi govt to come and build the Kollam and Alappuzha bypasses in Kerala (a state historically that has historically been anti-BJP), projects which till then had been languishing for 40 years! (Yes, thats right, 40 years! Google it)
@carboy mentioned metro in UPA regime in Mumbai. Guess its length: Only 12 kms. And they took forever to build this. After Fadnavis came, nearly 200 kms of metro construction, MTHL (Mumbai Trans-Harbor Link), Coastal Freeway, etc have been launched. There is simply no comparison.
Yes, BWSL (Bandra Worli Sea Link) and Eastern Freeway were done by Prithviraj Chavan's Congress govt in Maharashtra, and all credit to him. I am now convinced that this group is filled with biases with no rational thinking.
Corona situation has been a harsh crisis world over. India's situation is much better than many other developed countries. Of course, if you read agenda-driven media like NYT, you'll get a different picture. But hey, that's NYT for you, they run an agenda where they conveniently overlook the terrible situation in their backyard and misreport about India.
Your holding a grudge against this govt is unfair, as this govt has done a stellar job in handling it for the most part, for a country like ours. |
I don’t usually reply to insinuations but sometimes one needs to. Here it goes, for if you do understand some very basic things.
Infrastructure development has been happening since long, but for your sake even I agree that projects that you mentioned have happened. Roads have been built, expressways have been built and metro constructions at many places, even greenfield airports at many places which according to you are financed by taxes. I have a simple question here- what good are those infra projects which are built by making the very people pay through their noses for whom one is building those ?? What about the human index, a nation is not only about roads or ports or highways only which by the way we pay to use anyways. Do the maths sometimes about the earnings from a single toll on a high density corridor and may be you can get the drift. I am not going to almost many indices which gets a boost up whenever fuel prices go up and which probably everyone knows.
You talk of last sixty years, I have a simple equation here as well- at least during the last sixty years, people didn’t die due to paucity of oxygen in the National capital of the country while someone was making a central vista for vanity !!
The less one says about the Corona handling is better. You have the liberty to see that India did well amongst many nations but having lost many friends for as basic a thing called oxygen, I don’t need any agenda or non agenda driven publication to tell me what I saw and felt during the second wave of the pandemic. Every other country took care of its citizen’s, and here, the country wouldn’t even admit that people died because of mishandling of the pandemic.
I hold no grudge against the government, I am a just citizen of the country. The government has every right to take decisions on our behalf. But at least, as a citizen, I expect the government to tell us the truth. They can raise the fuel prices for as long as they want, but at least they should provide credible answers justifying the hikes and not indulge in whataboutary. Everyone is indulging in garbled jumlas whenever presented with facts and that’s sad. As a head of the state, the least a PM should do is being answerable to the electorate but that’s expecting too much anyways. The most funny part- the people in the government don’t have any answers but the peple supporting them are defending the same government by the same tomfullery that’s being fed to them day in and day out, facts being damned.
And now the highlighted part- I am so glad that Team BHP happened to me. It’s just not another cess pool that the current social media is and that shows how well informed and rational the members are. That you have reached this notion that members are biased should now tell you how rational people think about the rising fuel prices and how skewed your logic is here. Forum rules prohibit me from going further otherwise please look up my previous posts on this very thread and see how the central government is raking the moolah in the name of fuel taxes while completely bungling the economy.
Mods- Delete if seemed unnecessary but some things needed to be said.
Last edited by ABHI_1512 : 1st November 2021 at 22:03.
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