Posted by sanjaykaul on April 20, 2012 · Leave a Comment
The BJP wins the municipal polls in Delhi amid a general voter antipathy towards the Congress. But is it becoming a small fish specialist that misses landing the big catch? The reasons are there, if we’d care to turn the light inward. Now that the dust has settled over the municipal tally in Delhi, it … Read more
Filed under Politics · Tagged with BJP, candidates, Congress, corruption, Delhi Municipal Elections 2012, inlfation, MCD, Sanjay Kaul, Shiela Dixit, trifurcation, Voting, womens' reservation
Posted by sanjaykaul on February 21, 2011 · Leave a Comment
The proposal by the Delhi CM to split up the Municipal Corporation of Delhi ostensibly to bring greater efficiency to the corruption ridden body has failed to answer some key questions and raised doubts about her intentions. Why would a Chief Minister who has always complained about multiplicity of authority in Delhi, now want some … Read more
Filed under Governance, Politics · Tagged with BJP, Chief Minister of Delhi, Congress, corruption, East Delhi Lok Sabha constituency, India, MCD, Municipal Corporation of Delhi, municipal elections, Municipality of Delhi, New Delhi, Sanjay Kaul, Shiela Dixit, trifurcation of the MCD
Posted by sanjaykaul on October 21, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The Government has tried to seize the initiative on the Commonwealth Games enquiry, but with the clever overlap of multiple agencies and the IT raids to deflect attention, it looks like the Congress Party is already dictating the terms of reference for the probe. So, is the PM under pressure to scuttle the probe ? … Read more
Filed under Governance · Tagged with BJP, CAG, CBI, Chief Minister of Delhi, CMO, Commonwealth Games 2010, Congress, CVC, CW Games corruption enquiry, CW Games Village, DDA, DUAC, ED, Emaar MGF, India's image abroad, IOA, Jaipal Reddy, Kalmadi, M.S. Gill, Mani Shankar Aiyar, MCD, Ministre of Sports and Youth Affairs, MoUD, NDMC, New Delhi CWG corruption, Organising Committee for the CW Games, Oscar Fernandes, PMO, Prime Minister Manmoham Singh, PWD, Shiela Dixit, Shunglu Committee, Sunil Dutt
Posted by sanjaykaul on July 23, 2010 · 2 Comments
Three TV shows in the span of one week on the Commonwealth Games due in October in New Delhi and a lot of posturing on behalf of almost all actors in the case. It seems like logic is returning to haunt us all. But are we missing the point, once again. So when they … Read more
Filed under Governance · Tagged with A.K. Walia, Chief Minister of Delhi, Commonwealth Games 2010, Commonwealth Games Organising Committee, Congress, Connaught Place makeover, corruption, Dr. Harshvardhan, Finance Minister, flyovers, garbage, India, Indian Olympic Association, Mani Shankar Aiyar, MCD, Media, monsoon, NDTV, NDTV India, New Delhi, News 24, overspend on games, Planning and Urban Development, Rs 700 Crores for CP, Shiela Dixit, Suresh Kalmadi, Tarlochan Singh, tax payer money, wasteful expenditure on games, water logging in Delhi
Posted by sanjaykaul on December 24, 2009 · Leave a Comment
The execution [pun intended] of city planning at the altar of political expediency, with particular reference to the judicial intervention in Delhi on illegal constructions and encroachments. The spate of Court orders in Delhi in the last few years, first directing the tearing down of buildings constructed in contravention of existing building bye laws and … Read more
Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged with Bangalore, building bye-laws, Delhi, Demolitions, development, illegal settlements, MCD, Mumbai, Planning, Politics, Sealing, slums, Supreme Court, Urban Development
