This is very common affair in the country which is deprived of its basic amenities. Through misinformation, mismanagement and ignorance, rulers are ruling over India not for this decade alone but for last many decades except for some years in between. India is unable to get ruler who remains responsible for our slow growth in this most astronomical growth era of human civilization.

We have missed the bus of industrialisation, electronics and ICs. We have missed the opportunity of automations. We have the missed the opportunities arising from computerisation. Now we are going to miss the opportunities of Information era. If we are not awake now, we shall never be.

The Samajwadi Party has vowed to work against the use of English in education and computers in new projects. While these are pitched as populist measures, few may argue ignorantly that abolition of "expensive education in English" would allegedly create a level playing field for all and less use of computers would generate jobs. This is ridiculous. The steps must be viewed as alarm for all those people with communistic minds. These policies have the potential to drag back the country by years. That is why UP is decades behind AP if not century?

Releasing the party manifesto here on Saturday, SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav dwelt on his pet anti-English theme. The manifesto says that if a new government were to be formed with SP's support, it would work to abolish schools providing expensive education in English — in other words, virtually every public school regarded among the country's top schools. Interestingly, Mulayam Singh's two sons have gone to such schools. They have got education from USA. They themselves have acquired computer education. His son can never be seen without laptop. Why Indians are capable enough to do something for self and do something else for others?

While speaking to reporters, Mulayam Singh said he was against "the compulsory use of English language in education, administration and judiciary". He said SP favoured the national language, Hindi, and regional languages. To give his anti-top grade education a populist spin, he said his party was in favour of free education for girls until graduation. What is the use of free education which makes you clerk nothing else?