Federal Systems Under Threat

Bikash Choudhury


The farmers of Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra sou motto received central aid of Rs 400 crores as compensation towards crop damage owing to unseasonal rains; however, Farmers of Odisha received non and had to be satisfied with the announcement of visiting central team to assess crop damage. How do you explain such parochial decision of union govt.? A school student could figure out that it is a political favor since Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra being UPA ruled State; farmers of Odisha need suffer for electing a non-UPA govt. This unequal treatment between State on the basis of political expediency of central govt. is no small matter that can be glossed over under the carpet. Actually, this is a threat to our federal system, unity and integrity of our nation. The growing divisive forces in the State of J&K is the result of unimaginative, ham handed and selfish policies of Political parties in union govt. for over six decades. Our country should not be at the mercy of political expediency of ruling dis-pension at the center.Opposition parties in parliament must rise to the occasion without calculating political returns on supreme national interest.