And now just hours before the poll schedule is announced on July 6, the caretaker Govt. approves a bail out package for private telecom operators who owe the Govt. Rs. 3700 crores in unpaid licence fees. Earlier on June 7 the Communication Minister Shri Jagmohan was shifted from the Department as he insisted that the operator pay up this public money. The Prime Minister took over this portfolio and done the cabinet approve this package.

The last budget, approved by the Parliament, had provided for a receipt of Rs. 1700 crores from telecom licence fees. This stands waved without any approval by the Parliament. As the brave jawans shed their blood in kargil, the country bleeds because of the war and the common man gives his hard earned money to the defence fund, the Govt. of the day bails out the multi telecom operators mostly multinationals, with Rs. 1700 crores of public money, which the country and its defence forces need so badly right now.

But then that is another ‘B’ for ‘BJP’ and its leader – the ‘able Prime Minister’