PDP govt dance to the tune of powerful Quarry site owner

The much-talked about Punatsangchhu project’s ballooning costs is fated to push further by billions of ngulturms with the government taking the decision to return the Takshasili quarry sites to the owners in haste. The govt’s move came following a threat by the mafia-like influential owner of quarry sites to either pay the demanded ‘ransom’ or face the drawn-out legal battle. The decision is basically flawed in every sense of logic and reasoning.

Government is pliable and submissive when it comes to deal with unsated influential and powerful people while it’s dealt with an iron fist in case with the poor farmers. In the name of ‘national interest,’ the ancestral lands belonging to hundreds of farmers were taken away under compulsory force with little or no room of negotiation and with the dictated terms of compensation. If the farmers threat the govt with legal battle, I don’t think government would dance on the same tune.

Millions of cubic meter of high-quality quarry products are required for the mega project. As per a reliable source, not all quarry sites from within the reach of project sites are able to meet the required specification except the one that belong to the private owner. Every minute distance of quarry sites from the project site would add up cost exponentially and that’s why it can’t be extracted from distance afar. By this token, govt’s idea of procuring quarry products from ‘open market’ is indeed misleading.  It’s likely that the private owner would enjoy the monopoly of supply of quarry products which may weigh heavy on the project cost.

At times, it appears to me that all this drama of hassle and tussle is a deliberate attempt to eye-wash the general public. After all, there’s no denying that the owner of Quarry Company is the steward of PDP. For now, only god knows what’s going on within the close circuit of party networks.    

   

DPT MUST EXPLAIN

Dasho Benji's comment that DPT 'rob the country blind' is quite unique in the sense that no other people of his calibre have ever commented critical and fallacy such as this in black and white. As any democratic nation would do, it’s natural for DPT to defend what’s not correct. When asked for an apology, Benji went further to label DPT as seditious political party and intensify attack on DPT with all those nonsense allegations. The attack in truest sense is not against DPT but the 45% of the voter population who believe in DPT. All that supporters wished for is a clean judicial proceedings and an appropriate punishment against Benji for sowing the discord in the society.    

However, to the rude shock of many supporters, DPT has withdrawn libel suit against Dasho Benji for no apparent reasons. Although true motive for such move cannot be understood, people are upset not because DPT has withdrawn the case but the mere fact that the withdrawal of case would simply imply acceptance of allegations that were labelled against it by Dasho Benji. By this token, it's a cause of concern for many supporters and wonder if DPT could stand to its true cause for justice, clean democracy, equality and independence.

If DPT care for what it has been caused so far, the supporters deserve an unprejudiced explanation what has triggered to arrive at such unexpected decision to withdraw the case.