The Eff M

A number of comics and incompetent folks have managed to rule this nation, but I think the biggest joke of them all is our finance minister.

Chidambaram looks like a mathematics professor and speaks like an accounts wiz, but his crazy actions have always given away the real man: I think the mantri knows as much about finance as I know about tarot card reading: zilch.

The FM has done nothing to help ease the inflation. He’s done nothing to find solutions to the stocks crisis. He’s done nothing to find ways and means to save both the industrial sector and the aam aadmi. He’s come up with zero ideas to save jobs. There have been no plans worked out to cope with recessionary times. Through his hugely failed tenure, Chidambaram has simply been left wondering what happened. And when his mind does go on overdrive, he comes up with schemes like each time you take a client out for a drink, you pay tax on it (or some such drivel.)

And what is his latest mantra for the industry? Cut prices! Haha, what can be a bigger joke than that. He wants corporates to further erode their already eroded profitability! So how on earth will they pay salaries? And hire staff? Very clearly, this idea is aimed at garnering votes. And has no financial planning behind it. The Congress is desperate for price fall with elections round the corner. Since the FM has no idea how to do his job, he’s asking the private sector to bail him out.

I am deffy not voting for the Congress in the next elections. Unless they promise me Chidu will be in charge of the animal husbandry department.