No Respect for P.V.Narasimha Rao

Few days back, Congress had one big meeting in Nagpur. All the Congress leaders across the country attended the meeting. In that meeting, photos of all the previous and present congress leaders are there except one leader. That leader was none other than P.V.Narasimha Rao, the first Prime Minister to rule for 5 years and not from Nehru's family. He was the only congress leader who ignored Nehru-Gandhi's family completely and still stayed in Congress. When he was the Prime Minister, he completely ignored Sonia Gandhi and all the followers of her (like N.D.Tiwari, Arjun Singh etc). That was the main reason, why he never got any respect from any congress leader. He will not get any respect from Congress till Sonia Gandhi is there. Eventhough he is the only leader from Andhra Pradesh who became Prime Minister, still Andhra Pradesh Congress leaders never bothered to remember him.

When the Congress meeting was going on in Nagpur, at the same time Senior BJP Leader Narendra Modi, and Prajarajyam Party Leader Chiranjeevi praised P.V.Narasimha Rao for his economic reforms and development of the country. I am sure, none of the Congress leaders take this as an insult. When, the leaders of the opposition in the state and centre, L.K.Advani and N.T.Rama Rao gave so much respect to him, still congress leaders never bothered about him. Why will they bother now?

Programmatically Disabling Search in Sharepoint

To disable search in one sharepoint Website

SPWeb spWeb = new SPSite("http://krishna/sites/rama").AllWebs["Narayana"];
spWeb.AllowAutomaticASPXPageIndexing = false;
spWeb.ASPXPageIndexMode = WebASPXPageIndexMode.Never;
spWeb.NoCrawl = true;
spWeb.Update();

To disable Search for all the Web sites in the given site collection in Sharepoint.

foreach (SPWeb web in new SPSite("http://krishna/sites/rama").AllWebs)
{
web.AllowAutomaticASPXPageIndexing = false;
web.ASPXPageIndexMode = WebASPXPageIndexMode.Never;
web.NoCrawl = true;
web.Update();
}

This code will not disable the search box, but, gives zero results for any search query.

Evacuation

XYZ Office -> A fire alarm rang at 6 PM when almost all shift employees are in office (approx 5000). As usual entire office was evacuated within 3 mins & every employee gathered outside office.

10 mins passed
..............................
5 more mins passed.


Security Officer -> Announcement started, "Dear Employees - With melting heart I am making this announcement that for many of you it will be the last evacuation drill, as we are laying off almost 80% of the employees. While moving in who-so-ever ID card won't work are laid off & all their belongings will be couriered to them tomorrow. We followed this approach as we don't want to fill email box size with layoff mail in thousands & also to avoid any fight inside office". Hope you have nice career ahead. Please move in & try your luck.

Layoff

Once upon a time the government with Ruling Party XYZ.. had a vast scrap yard in the middle of a desert. Ruling Party XYZ Said..
- "Someone may steal from it at night."

So they created a night watchman position and hired a person for the job. Then Ruling Party XYZ Said..
- "How does the watchman do his job without instruction?"

So they created a planning department and hired two people, one person to write the instructions, and one person to do time studies. Then Ruling Party XYZ Said..
- "How will we know the night watchman is doing the tasks correctly?"

So they created a Quality Control department and hired two people. One to do the studies and one to write the reports. Then Ruling Party XYZ Said.. ,
- "How are these people going to get paid?"

So they created the following positions, a time keeper, and a payroll officer, then hired two people. Then Ruling Party XYZ Said..,
- "Who will be accountable for all of these people?"

So they created an administrative section and hired three people, an Administrative Officer, Assistant Administrative Officer, and a Legal Secretary. Then Ruling Party XYZ Said..
- "We have had this command in operation for one year and we are $18,000 over budget, we must cutback overall cost."

So they laid off the night watchman.


The same thing can be applied to software industry also. In that, the developer would be laid off instead of the night watchman.

Alliance of TDP and TRS

The alliance of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) is finalized. TDP is giving 46 Assembly seats and 9 Parliament seats to TRS. TDP is contesting in 50 Assembly seats out of 119, and 4 Parliament seats out of 17. TDP is giving the remaining seats to Communists. This is the first time for TDP to give that many seats to other parties. Till now, they have given maximum 15% seats to other parties, and now they directly jumped to 60% in Telangana region.

I cannot understand why TDP is degraded to such a situation. But, it is a big advantage for Loksatta.

K.Chandra Shekar Rao is the Chief of TRS party. He won from Karimnagar parliamentary constituency in 2004. In 2006, in an argument with Congress Leader M.Satayanarayana Rao, he resigned to his M.P. seat and contested again there. He won with more than 2 lakh majority. In 2008, all his MLAs and MPs resigned and contested again. The people got fed up with him for repeatedly resigning, and they voted for other parties which can win. Out of 16 assembly constituencies, TRS won 7, Congress won 5 and TDP won 4. Out of 4 parliament constituencies, TRS won 2 (one is KCR himself), Congress and TDP won one each. KCR won with a majority of 15,000, a big drop from 2 lakh in the previous election. At that time, people had chosen the party which can defeat TRS in that election, and voted for that. By that, TRS lost badly.

In Dec 2007, MLA of Khairathabad at that time, P.Janardhan Reddy, died and by-election was conducted with the 16 assembly constituencies vacated by TRS. P.Janardhan Reddy's son P.Vishnuvardhan reddy contested from Khairatabad and won with a big majority. In that election, Loksatta's candidate Katari Srinivasa Rao came in second position and TRS got third position. TDP did not contest in exchange of similar situation in Terlam, where the MLA of Aleru died, and his son contested from TDP, and Congress did not contest from there. Sympathy was a major factor in the easy win of Congress.

Khairatabad was a very big constituency. In the restructure of all the assembly and parliament constituencies, it was split into four constituencies, Khairatabad, Kukatpally, Serilingampally and Jubilee Hills. Loksatta Candidate in the last by-election Katari Srinivasa Rao is going to contest from Serilingampally in the next general elections.

I was campaigning in Serilingampally constituency and there was one common concern among many educated people. Those who understand economics little bit know that, Congress is destroying the state. It is must to bring down the Congress government to save the state. So, they said, because, they do not want Congress, they are going to vote for TDP which is the next probable win. They also said, if TDP does not contest, then they would vote for Loksatta.

Anyone who understand economics can clearly say that, Jayaprakash Narayan and Chandrababu Naidu are the only leaders in Andhra Pradesh, who do not make state to go bankrupt. Congress had already emptied entire treasury. Chiranjeevi is the one who does not know anything about economics. When he was asked the question, whether he is Leftist or rightist, he replied that, he is a humanist. Till now he has not disclosed his manifesto or his economic policies. If TDP is not going contest at any place, then I am sure, most of the voters would prefer to vote for Loksatta instead of other parties. So, this alliance is of big advantage to Loksatta than any other party.

By the way, TRS is going to contest in Serilingampally, and most probably Katari Srinivasa Rao would be first in the list of MLAs of Loksatta.