Better compensation

Better compensation 
The compensation of Rs5 lakh and the additional Rs10 lakh promised by Mamata Banerjee granted to the family of R Ramchandran, the motorman of the Kalyan-bound train which met with a mishap on Friday is a pittance considering his brave and timely action(‘Motorman makes his last journey’, DNA.Sunday, October 25). A better recognition would be to extend his salary to his family till the time he would have superannuated.
—Christopher Antony, Mumbai

Third innings
Now that the Congress-NCP has come back to power again in Maharashtra, it would be interesting to see whether the Ashok Chavan government would give priority to construction of the Rs350 crore Shivaji statue in the Arabian sea and construction of free houses for the slum dwellers or will they give priority to improving the infrastructure problems. Expensive electricity, water shortage, transport problems and slow construction of the Metro are some of the issues being faced by Mumbai and rest of Maharashtra. It would be interesting to see how the Ashok Chavan government tackles the law and order problems which will arise from the Shiv Sena and MNS battle in Mumbai to gain sympathy of the Marathi manoos.
—George D’mello, Mumbai

Wrong allegations 
The allegation by Pakistan’s interior minister Rehman Malik that India is funding Taliban (‘India funding Taliban fighters: Malik’, DNA, October 27) is a joke. The whole world knows that the Taliban is creation of the Pakistani establishment to wage a proxy war against India. It is being continuously nurtured and funded by the successive governments of Pakistan. Now that things are going out of control (the recent series of bomb attacks by extremists there), the Pakistani establishment has chosen to blame India for existence of Taliban.
—KA Prasanna, Mumbai

Good riddance
The edit ‘Wires crossed’ (DNA, October 26), has rightly highlighted the political compulsions that had prompted the then UPA government, last year, to turn a blind eye towards the scandal involving 2G radio spectrum sale. Even then it was quite evident that the telecom minister, A Raja, had a big role in the scam. The DMK was quite certain that the UPA could not afford to put it on the dock. But now the scenario is quite different. The Congress Party and the prime minister are in a firm position to now call the DMK bluff. The CBI raids in the telecom set-up should be an eye-opener for the Congress’s coalition partners that they cannot blackmail the Congress party any more.
—Chandramohan, Mumbai