More Brilliant Ideas of the Decade : "8 to 8 Shut Down" by the intelligent economist Finance Minister Mr. P.Chidambaram as follows :
The ( huge fiscal deficit led bankrupt ) government is also going to launch a massive campaign by huge spending on ads through the current ‘Bharat Nirman’ campaign for which he said, "Budget for ads is always there", and this huge spending ads will also be used for urging people to avoid spending ( what a stupid contrasting proposition ? ). The push by ads will include mass media campaigns, street plays and hoardings at all ATMs.
When Mr. Chidambaram was asked. won’t this ad campaign cost money ?, Mr. Chidambaram seriously joked, “We always have provisions for ads no matter how bad is the state of economy. Did you miss the ads on 20th August or the current ‘Bharat Nirman’ campaign? Budget for ads is always there,” thus surprisingly disclosing the fact that all this was a "Rahul Gandhi Experiment", as Rahul Gandhi is behind this ‘Out of the box’ thinking to arrest the slide of rupee.
Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain reacted sharply to the government's quick-fix solution to deal with the fuel crisis, as he said, "What is a petrol pump, this government will close the country. Won't the people fill their car fuel tanks in the morning?"
It is an earnest question everyone making, "If the Manmohan Singh government has run out of ideas to tackle the economic mess,and making such stupid suggestion in order to save their skin from the rebuke they will be expecting to make by making steep raise in prices of petroleum products to manage huge increase in budgeted subsidy bill. The bigger question is what was rational of presenting this huge 1.25 lakh crore subsidy linked Food Security Bill at this moment and at this difficult juncture ? Is not it playing with fire as regards to economic realities , just to play cheap vote bank politics ?
It is a fact that the renowned economist prime minister, finance minister and other wise men are trapped in the juggernaut of vote politics of Madam Sonia, forced to keep aside the interest of India and its people. They should take suggestions from the opposition parties by surrendering and work jointly to come out of this mess.