RSS is driving the political class to pass the legislation to make Hindutva a Gas Chamber!
Reform legislation is matter of consensus!
Palash Biswas
It should be kept in mind that the government is doing everything to pass reform legislation in the winter session of Parliament and the entire billionaire millionaire class is united rock solid and it has to defend the interests of the corporate raj at the cost of us,the citizens of India the
taxpayers as well as the people who do not afford to pay taxes whatsoever.
Mind you,Meanwhile,Congress has already given broad indications that it will not oppose passage of the contentious insurance bill, as its concerns have been addressed, but the party remained non-committal on whether the bill would be passed in this session itself.
Though the Congress has come on board on this issue, a section believes that the party should not appear in a hurry for passing the bill (Insurance Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2008) and eschew from showing "extra eagerness".
The section believes that the government is to keen to pass the bill before the arrival of US President Barrack Obama, who is coming here to attend the Republic Day parade.
For example,some minster was targeted by the opposition and the parliament faced stalemate until 1382 laws were killed with a single stroke in absence of the opposition.At the moment,the laws were killed ,the ooposition demanding nothing less than resignation,stopped the campaign and a resolution ended the matter.It could have been much before.
Ironically,the same minister is engaged in Hate campaign yet again as RSS makes her a star campaigner and she declares,NO peace wanted!She is openly invoking violence against all those who is opposed to Hindu imperialism.But the so much so loud Indian Politics has kept mum for reasons unknown.
The opposition did not resist labour reforms at any stage neither in the parliament nor out of the Parliament.
Latest example is the conversion drive launched by RSS and sanctioned by Indian Politics with unprecedented understanding with which it passed citizenship amendment act without any opposition whatsoever.This act is being misused against Bangladeshi nationals whom Modi declared the subject to be declared.The poorest lot of Muslim Population in India deprived of citizenship have no way but to convert as Hindu.
Every one in politics opposes conversion on principle and the consensus seems to be imminent to pass yet another law to ban conversion which means NO AMBEDKAR would have the opportunity to get rid of caste system.Everyone has to live and die with the caste.
It is the best way to sustain Manusmriti based caste apartheid and RSS is driving the political class to pass the legislation to make Hindutva a Gas Chamber!
The issue of alleged forced conversions in India's Agra rocked the lower house of the parliament Thursday, even as the government proposed an anti-conversion law at both the central and state levels.
The opposition attacked the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party-led government over the conversion issue, saying it was "polarising" the country.
The government on its part hit back by saying that the matter was blown out of proportion and was "false propaganda".
"Let there be anti-conversion law in all states and at the Centre. We are all one," Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said replying to a discussion on the issue.
You may understand the game with the follow up of much hyped anti black money campaign as amid official concerns of bullion trade being used for routing of black money, Switzerland's gold exports to India have risen further and is fast approaching Rs one-trillion mark for the entire 2014.
Meanwhile,Congress has already given broad indications that it will not oppose passage of the contentious insurance bill, as its concerns have been addressed, but the party remained non-committal on whether the bill would be passed in this session itself.
The party also made it clear that it will not be issuing any whip to its members.
This is being done apparently to allow legroom for dissent if any to the measure within the party amid reports that the party has different opinions on the issue.
"There may not be a need," said party spokesperson Rajeev Gowda when asked whether the party could issue a whip to its members to be present in the House and support the bill that seeks to effect a hike in foreign investment limit in insurance sector to 49 per cent from the existing 26 per cent.
Asked whether the bill will become a reality next week or in this session, Gowda said,"it does not depend on us. Passing the bill is not our responsibility. It is the government's job. It depends on many factors like how does the House run....What happens in the House we cannot predict"
At the AICC briefing, Gowda said that the party expects to have a discussion on it when the bill comes to the House and added that the party will not be found wanting from "fighting in the forefront" when it comes to issues of public welfare.
He also said that the report of the Select Committee tabled in Rajya Sabha shows that the amendments given by the Congress have been accepted.
The Parliamentary panel in its reports has incorporated Congress party's suggestion of a composite cap on overseas investments.
"The Committee recommends that the composite cap of 49 per cent should be inclusive of all forms of foreign direct investment and foreign portfolio investments," the report said.
With the Congress, which has been pressing for a composite cap, pacified, the government is likely to bring the bill for consideration of the Upper House as early as the next week.
The Congress support for the Insurance Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2008, is crucial as the ruling NDA does not have majority in the Upper House.
Mind you,the Indian Parliament (including the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha) passed the Labour Laws (Exemption from Furnishing Returns and Maintaining Registers by Certain Establishments) Amendment Bill, 2014, last week.
The Bill, as amended, proposes to change some of the provisions of the original Act of 1988. It increases the number of laws under which small establishments are exempt from furnishing returns and maintaining registers from nine to 16.
The seven Acts that are added to the list include the Motor Transport Workers Act, 1961, the Payment of Bonus Act, 1965, the Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1979, and the Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996.
Secondly, the Bill amends the definition of "small" establishments to cover units employing between 10 to 40 workers, as against the limit of 19 workers at present.
Bandaru Dattatreya, the Union Minister of State for Labour and Employment (Independent Charge), said the Bill is a social security measure and it simplifies procedures regarding engaging labourers.
The main purpose of bringing the Bill is transparency, accountability and proper enforcement.
Dattatreya said the Government was not at all compromising on the interest of workers and the legislation was not meant to give exemption to any establishment.
Once the Bill is implemented after the signature of the President, garment factories employing up to 40 workers will come under the definition of 'small' establishments. These establishments would also require to maintain lesser number of records from what they used to maintain earlier.
