Private gains in the name of public good

These kind of ads are not new. Why should the Central government be paying for publishing Sonia Gandhi’s picture and Karunanidhi’s picture when the function is one organized by the Union government? Sonia and Karunanidhi don’t hold any official positions in the Union government and hence the government should not be paying for such ads. This is the same issue being discussed by News Today in this excellent article.

....The above thoughts come to mind on seeing the cheap, petty, politically partisan, flashy and splashy advertisement issued by a government of India organisation called Sethusamudram Corporation Limited to announce a function arranged in Chennai today for signing the Memorandum of Understanding between Sethusamudram Corporation Limited and Suez Canal Authority, Egypt, in the august presence of Dr Kalaignar M Karunanidhi.

The same advertisement also carries the photographs of Dr Manmohan Singh, the de jure Prime Minister of India and Sonia Gandhi, the de facto Prime Minister of India.

By arranging a party function in the guise of a government of India programme, Baalu has clearly shown that he is not a 'Servant of the State'. He has shown through his ill-advised advertisement that he is a 'Servant of Infamy'. He has also irrefutably shown that he is a 'Servant of both DMK party and its supremo Karunanidhi only'.

Men like Baalu, Sonia and Karunanidhi are brazenly starving their conscience while thriving in State. Washington Irving described the kind of function which is being organised today in Chennai as 'Meetings consisting of some half a dozen scurvy pothouse politicians'.