Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Krishanapatnam port and the Congress-DMK politics

It is too common in UPA that union ministers act like state representatives and most of the ministerial responsibilities are undertake by Soniya Gandhi or any other congress leader. One new example happend in A.P shows the discrepancy in UPA and the way Govt. and the congress party is working for top Business houses. A new port is going to inaugurate (minor port upgrading as a major) at Nellore in Andhra. Two Factors seems to need address in this situation. One is the necessity of allowing a Privet major port at Nellore. Second, the weak Central shipping Minister Mr.Balu and the way tamilnadu DMK ministers working against the state.

Krishnapatnam port at nellore is a Pvt venture from a hydrabad group and it is planning to be a major port in eastern cost. Already 5 ports are operating in this area and this port is hardly going to affect the Chennai ports (George Town and Ennore).Even the minor port at kakinada (A.P) which has showed a significant growth for the recent years also going to hit badly. The present working conditions and state tax policies at Chennai port is keeping bulk handlers away from Chennai to kakinada even kandla!!. As far as businessmen are concerned the new pvt port may be financially beneficial for them but T.N (Chennai ports) will loose its business due to the corrupted present DMK ministers.

Central shipping minister T.R Balu belongs to Chennai is not attending the inaugural function at krishnapatnam port. Just like any other, Soniya Gandhi is inaugurating the function and PM Manmohan Singh is providing only a congratulation message through News media. It is a clear signal that how congress party is destroying public ventures and collecting funds for coming elections.

I have pity on Mr.Balu as he has nothing to say about it and the already suffering Chennai ports are going to hit hardly due to the new Pvt venture at Nellore(which is hardly 170 Km from Chennai).Instead, Mr.Balu is interested only for making over bridge at Ram Sethu as the project may benefit financially more.

Congress party and other UPA allies like DMK, NCP , SP and RJD are fully involved in treating top businessmen in the country rather than working on inflation or any other people issues.