‘Raining Jobs’; Raj Dharma; Political Business

Opinion Watch

‘Raining Jobs’

The Asian Age in its Editorial has hailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for handing over jobs to 51000 youth from across the country in the eighth edition of the job melas. The New Delhi-based daily has also chided the Opposition for terming the job melas as “electoral stunts”, saying that the remark is in poor taste. The daily also lauded Modi for saying that tourism sector can create 14 crore jobs.

Holding of job melas is an admission on the part of the Centre that employment among the youth is at a distressing level. Visuals of railway stations when recruitment exams for teachers are held in parts of the country affirm that jobless growth is hurting the youth.    

Raj Dharma

The Indian Express has in an Editorial counselled Punjab Governor Banwari Lal Purohit and Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann to call truce over a cup of tea. The Noida-based daily has given an account of the breakdown in the relations of the CM and the Raj Bhavan. The daily has linked the Chandigarh battle to a pattern of the Opposition-ruled states facing the wrath of Raj Bhavan despite the Supreme Court’s “rap on the knuckle” to warring parties.  

Tussle between CM office and Raj Bhavan points to a larger issue of the Centre-state relations becoming victims of politics. Political considerations appear to weigh high in the conduct of the affairs of the governance.

Political Business

The Economic Times has counted virtues of businessmen joining politics in the backdrop of the founder of Foxconn Terry Gou throwing his hat in the ring of the presidential election of Taiwan. The business daily has sifted the gains from CEOs joining politics even while Roivant Sciences founder Vivek Ramaswamy has put out his candidacy for the 2024 Presidential poll in the US.  Stating that brand is the candidate in the politics, the daily reasoned that politics brings humongous challenges, not just limited to maximizing profits.

Indian parliament has several members from the business community as members, and none of them ever proved to be mass leaders. Nandan Nilekani, founder of Infosys, faced electoral loss in the Lok Sabha elections. But developed countries may have a better template for CEOs to tread the Donald Trump path.  

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Manish Anand

Manish Anand is a senior journalist with more than two decades of hardcore reporting on beats such as Prime Minister’s Office, Parliament, BJP, Congress, Planning Commission, NITI Aayog, and scores of Union Ministries.

His past has been with The New Indian Express, The Asian Age/Deccan Chronicle, and The Statesman.

For about 15 years, Manish was also a regular commentator and host for talks on AIR on foreign affairs.

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