This is what happens when those who know only barbering go to governing. After robbery, theft and looting, the Government of Kerala found no money to pay employees!
P. S. Remesh Chandran
Editor, Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum
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The treasury collapsed not because of lack of money coming to the exchequer, but under the leadership of nineteen ministers and the Chief Minister, the whole thing was continuously taken away. So the Treasury became a blank. It is the first time in the history of independent Kerala that the government has not been able to pay salaries to the employees on March 1st, 2nd and 3rd of March 2024. If it was asked whether it was like this before Kerala became independent, it was a question of the king's conscience; if he could not pay the salary then, the king would have gone and committed suicide, or else he would have taken the queen's necklace and pledged it. It has never happened. (It was said here of those who know only barbering- cheraykkal in Malayalam- because of their lack of dignity, and not to insult that profession of essential services!). Today, government employees, their families and others who depend on them are asking if the Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, the Finance Minister Balagopalan and the ruling Left Democratic Front Leader E. P. Jayarajan couldn’t go suiciding as those kings would have done in their place. (Don't hang at the Secretariate!).
Although the salaries of all government departments have stopped, to tell the truth, the people are the most happy for it stopping for the police also. Like they were sired by and are the descendents of Pinarayi Vijayan, they provided protection for all his criminal activities and behaved, acted and reacted in an uncivil manner similar to him. Because of that, the people are more than happy that their salaries have stopped. If they have the courage they preen before the people, let them go protest or shout slogans in front of the Chief Minister's house without looking at the law! If there is no law for them to keep as they demonstrate, there is no law either to sue and dismiss them from service too for it!
It is now understood from the no-steps able to be taken against this unprecedented and authorities-made Kerala’s financial crisis and invariable spectacular collapse that just like during the freedom struggle of India when the people boycotted everything British and blocked their revenue, if without anyone's incitement the people stay away for a month from remitting what are due to government, if they do not take lottery tickets for a month, and if they do not go to the State Beverages Corporation Shops to buy liquor, then these Chief Ministers and Finance Ministers and their officials will swallow water, if the people can extend it to three months then they will breathe their Chakra Swaasa- their frantic breath, and if they could continue it to a little more, make these sovereigns go commit suicide. Don’t make people do it. The good old days of borrowing and spending at wish by politically forcing and bribing the Central government do it for them is over, i.e., the Central Government borrowing and they spending!
They in government told the people that it was not because they took money in every way they could from the treasury that the state had to steal from the salaries of its employees but because they did not get the thousands of crores of rupees due from the Central Government. If that is the case, then is it the people who are to take action or turn to struggle against the Centre? Who are being paid for it- the people or those in the government? Why are they even saying this to the people of Kerala? The people of Kerala have never had a hand in the making of the BJP government at the Centre. They never have even elected a single BJP MP from Kerala. And all they have elected to the Parliament are nineteen Congress MPs. How are these people or those MPs responsible for the government at the Centre denying any funds due for Kerala, if it’s actually due, which the Central Finance Minister with the help of figures says it’s not? Then why are you telling this to the people of Kerala as if it is they who are responsible for the Kerala Treasury’s collapse?
The Marxist parties have fought so much everywhere in the world for so many causes. Why don't they go and protest against the Center in Delhi or Trivandrum? If at the age of 78, a crippled chief minister, who has reached the point where he is taking elevators at home and in buses to ascend steps and descend, and a number of officials and ministers who are drooling at the sight of the government TA for travel, accompanies him, gather in Delhi with a one-minute speeches and picture-taking, will it be a strike or struggle against the Centre?
In order to pollute the Indian Parliament like septic canals, such ruling co-conspirators and leaders in Kerala’s Marxist Party as Panniyan Raveendran, Thomas Issac and K. K. Shailaja have come forward demanding that they may be made to win all the twenty seats from Kerala to the Parliament. From It would appear from their election advertisements and speeches that it was not them who took away all the money from the treasury of Kerala, and that it is someone else who runs the Kerala administration!
Written on: 03 March 2024 and first published on: 04 March 2024
Original article in Malayalam written and first published on: 03 March 2024:
SM 1549. ചെരയു്ക്കാ൯മാത്രമറിയാവുന്നവ൯ ഭരിക്കാ൯പോയാലു്സ്സംഭവിക്കുന്നതാണു് കേരളസംസ്ഥാനഖജനാവിലു് സംഭവിച്ചിരിക്കുന്നതു്. ധൂ൪ത്തുംമോഷണവുംകഴിഞ്ഞു് സംസ്ഥാനഗവണു്മെ൯റ്റുജീവനക്കാ൪ക്കു് ശമ്പളംകൊടുക്കാ൯പണമില്ലാതായി! https://sahyadrimalayalam.blogspot.com/2024/03/1549.html