Phailin hits political parties of Odisha

BHUBANESWAR:Governance happens when politicians are in alignment and clear about what they should do. Contrast this with political situation in other states where almost all parties have a stake in communalism. There is no chance that CM of Odisha will be dethroned in the next election.

After a long, long time it seems as if we have got our disaster management act right with Odisha’s Phailin cyclone. Loss of life was in the low the we expected. Administration could move people out of harm’s way and thanks also to the support of the centre in terms of logistics and rescue operations well enough. One success does not constitute a turn in Indian governance and attitudes to disaster management, whether the disasters are man-made or the result of nature’s pent-up fury. In fact, there is good reason to treat the Odisha success as a one-off till proven otherwise, for we cannot overlook the extremely favorable alignment of stars and almost everyone’s political objectives in the run-up to Phailin.