Politician Promise

PATNA - After years of neglect, the 391 schools that were set up in Bihar to fulfil Mahatma Gandhi’s dream that one day all Indian children will have access to basic education are set to get a new lease of life. State Human Resources Development Minister Hari Narain Singh told IANS here Thursday that the government [...]

New Delhi: With only a week to go before the first parliament session of the new government ends, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi exhorted party members not to lose sight of the reason they had been elected as MPs. In a well calibrated address at the Congress parliamentary meeting, she cajoled and chided while stressing [...]

PANAJI: In a mood for promises, chief minister Digambar Kamat announced a sea link connecting Dona paula with vasco and a second bridge over the zuari. Making an additional budget speech in the legislative assembly on Friday, Kamat proposed that the new Zuari bridge be “the golden jubilee bridge in Goa’s 50th year of liberation”. Later speaking [...]

PANAJI: The Chief Minister, Mr Digambar Kamat informed the state legislative assembly on Tuesday that the mining policy would be finalised after taking the members of the House into confidence by the government. He also assured that the interest of the people of the state would be taken into consideration while finalising the policy. Responding to [...]

Chief Minister Yeddyurappa on Tuesday said that legislators of both Houses and all MPs from the State will be given Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) sites under ‘G’ category in Bangalore. Intervening during a discussion in the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday, Yeddyurappa said the government was committed to sanction BDA sites to all MLAs, MLCs and MPs. “Those [...]

Your average commuting time spent on Bangalore roads has risen - hold your breath - by a shocking 400% in 25 years. For instance, the average 15-minute breezy ride from Jayanagar to MG Road in 1984 now takes nearly 1 hour during peak hours, and we’re not factoring in the incalculable twin harms of pollution [...]

Gammon India, the company carrying out the construction work at the Delhi Metro site where six people were killed as a section of a elevated viaduct collapsed, denied negligence on its part and said all safety measures had been taken. “We followed highest safety measures and have safety engineers. We are an ISO certified company [...]

Kochi: Kerala Food and Civil Supplies Minister C Divakaran today said the State Government would provide succour to people affected in the incessant rainfall which had been lashing the State especially in the Central and Northern parts, and not wait for assistance from the Centre. Speaking to reporters here, Divakaran said the government would give [...]

MLA M P Kumaraswamy visited the rain-hit areas on Sunday in Kalasa hobli.Inspecting the houses damaged by rains, he pomised to provide appropriate compensation to the families. MLA M P Kumaraswamy visited the rain-hit areas on Sunday in Kalasa hobli. Landslides had occurred at Navilukudige on Huluvalli-Hornadu road, Kankodu on Hirebail-Hemmakki road and Hosuru on Kalasa-Kalakodu [...]

It is now quite common to experience the practice of promises contradicting performance; and words being nothing more than rhetoric, especially in relation to governments and political parties in the Naga electoral politics. Ironically it is through the promises they make that political parties seek to win the confidence of people; and inevitably, it is [...]

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