The few weeks after my return to Kozhikode from Delhi have been full of interesting rejoining meetings and contacts with old friends, comrades and colleagues. After 25 years  out of Calicut, many ties have been broken but they are being repaired one after another.

Two meetings at Ernakulam, the CEC meetings both BSNLEU and AIBDPA, have been exceptionally warm. I was given the honour to inaugurate both of them. All of the leaders were my co-workers for decades and the meetings were occasions of exchanges of many ideas and views. Once again I have reached back home.

It is reported that the National Council meeting of BSNL is postponed from the scheduled date on 17th March 2017 since the Chairperson Director(HR) is indisposed. BSNLEU has demanded for an early meeting. It is hoped that the meeting will be held shortly.

Incidentally it is to be mentioned that no meeting of the National Council had been held for about 10 months ie. since the last the membership verification last year. This is most unfortunate.

‘Not much has changed since Ambedkar’s time’, lamented former Finance Minister and a top leader of the Congress party at the release of the book ‘The Essential Ambedkar’ by Planning Commission Member Balachandra Mungekar.

His observation will not be disputed by any body. Even after almost 70 years since Independence, the condition of the SC/ST has not changed much. But who is responsible? It is not only the present Modi Government or the earlier Vajpai Government alone, but mainly the Congress Government which ruled the country for more than five decades. The Congress Party needs a self introspection in the matter how they ignored the justified issues of the SC/ST population for their entire period of government.