Saturday, July 11, 1998
Communications failure
The postal strike that the nation is having to suffer need never have been called, had the Union
PM as goalkeeper
Nowhere in the Constitution has goal-keeping been listed as part of prime ministerial duties, but that's all Atal Behari Vajpayee has done since becoming Prime Minister in March. This is not really surprising given the fact that his party colleagues and the leaders of so-called friendly parties seem to be competing with one another to score one self-goal after another.
Swadeshi meets unionism at Maruti
The latest to board the already over-burdened swadeshi bandwagon in the country appears to be the trade union at India's auto giant, Maruti Udyog Limited. With the union, over the years, being led to believe that Suzuki is against its interests, it has actually petitioned industry minister Sikander Bakht and asked the government not to divest any more of its equity in favour of the other equal-partner, Suzuki Motor Corporation of Japan.
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