'Aki'lles

We have heard of election campaigns in the past promising free electricity or free water for farmers (whether they are feasible or not if implemented is another issue). For the first time however there is an election campaign that promises a free Colour TV for everyone !!!! Yes, a TV and this 'brilliant' idea has been proposed by the none other than the DMK supremo Karunanidhi.

Of all things, why a TV ?? Maybe he wants everyone to sit and watch Sun TV !! Yeah, but the TV doesn't run on air it requires something called 'electricity'. I think he completely forgot about that point or does he live under the impression that all villages in Tamil Nadu have power supply in the first place ?? (forget 24 hrs power supply, thats a luxury by current standards).

Well he didnt stop with just this one 'amazing' TV idea. Next, he came up with a Rs 2/Kg rice promise !! 'Amma' (JJ) laughed this idea off as being infeasible only to come up with an even more crazier idea of distributing 10 Kg of free rice to ration card holders!!

Really, there ought to be some provision in the constitution which bans parties from making such crazy promises. Instead of emptying the coffers of the state with such infeasible promises, the politicans should realize that if employement is guaranteed for everyone, the poor could purchase the rice and TV(someday) themselves without any subsidy from the state. Employement for everyone ? Now, that seems to be a distant dream in India......