The Committee to clear applications for government welfare schemes include Leader of the Opposition, Director of Social Welfare, Director of Women and Child Welfare which I understand, places faith in MLAs recommendation. We have CAG pointing out lapses in implementation and Ex Chief Minister Parsekar calling to recover losses and action against fake beneficiaries and MLAs recommending them! Welfare schemes are generally a political ploy to reward/bribe voters and as Parsekar says "It is sad to see government exchequer being looted by fake beneficiaries". The excuse given in the DSSS flaws was due to software flaws! It is reported that the CM has ordered a suryey of all beneficiaries of all welfare schemes by December 2018 and future cheaters will face criminal cases. Will the present defaulters and benefactor MLAs face the law/be punished? The courts are overburdened and the executive in full command! The central government having made a mess of the reservations issue, attempting taking away people's right to privacy and trying to curb freedom of speech, passing laws to nullify Supreme Court decisions, the NRC exercise in Assam, all actions based on vote bank politics is a dangerous game which the nation is being subjected to! Some more laws will be passed to punish rape and lynchings, but nothing much done to prevent them from hapenning? What is worse is the communalization and religious polarization in full swing. The last bastion Supreme Court is under attack and a weak Opposition bodes ill for our democracy which seems to be morphing into a mobocracy?
