Honest assessment of home minister's constituency

Do you believe in “KARMA” If YES, your faith will be strengthened, and if NO, you may change your mind - at the end of this report.

How else can we explain the plight of the people, for none of their mistakes - and their representative, who did nothing for them, lives in ever increasing luxury for the past 25 years or more.

Yes! I am talking about, Sivaganga constituency, from where our union home minister P Chidambaram has been elected for a sixth consecutive term. Not to mention the fact that he is a mainstay in the union cabinet for many years now. He has served as a minister of state in Rajiv ministry too. Over the years, he has grown to one of the political bigwig of the country. Yet, I should sadly admit, his constituency remains as a true picture of neglect.

Well! I have nothing personal against PC, and I haven’t conducted a survey. By virtue of my extensive travelling through the constituency, and the resultant inevitable comparison with other parts of the state, I could come to such a conclusion. It may be hard to believe or accept- but I am not exaggerating. Absolutely nothing has been done for the people for many years ( I contemplated writing ‘Very little’ instead of ‘Nothing’ – but with what I have seen, ‘Nothing’- would only be appropriate)

I interacted with people with various backgrounds, I kept my eyes and ears and more importantly, the mind open to observe things. I categorized my research under the following agenda:
i) Signs of growth
ii) Basic Infrastructure
iii) Living Conditions
iv) Employment opportunities
v) Development schemes/works

If you want to see a place where no growth could be noticed for decades, you should choose Sivaganga constituency. Things are in their places, just by the will of god, (Bhagwan Bharosa)- just as they were decades ago.

Infrastructure is invisible. Roads, buildings, bus stops, schools, hospitals are in very bad shape. Roads are terribly damaged except for Sivaganga City, where roads ceased to exist long back. Needless to add, other Infrastructure too is just as pathetic. Better not to write about the living conditions in the villages, which form the major part of this constituency…


There are no employment opportunities within the constituency. The trend of people migrating to other parts of the state/nation/world in search of a decent job/living continues. A considerable number of people (min 01 per family) work in Malaysia/ Singapore/ Brunei/Gulf Countries, fetch good money and survive here. A large Granite facility, advertised to have a potential for 5000 direct and indirect employments, is dumped after much deliberation, for reasons and economics known only to Mr PC.

Not so surprisingly, there are no development schemes/ Works at any place I visited. Recently there was news about MPs not utilizing their funds to their constituencies. Hold on! PC’s name did not feature in it. Only thing, there no sign of that utilized fund.

To sum up, PC has nothing to show, other than opening branches of various branches, in and around Karaikkudi and Sivaganga. The changes and growth I got to see were of individual efforts. For example, A famous entrepreneur from Trichy, has provided bore wells throughout his native village and surrounding villages. He is said to be helping people in many other ways. Also the hard earned foreign money of the people,who remain in a foeign country for years together and do all sorts of physical work, help in sustaining the economy in villages.

When individual efforts are able to provide solace to people, much could have been done by PC but he never lived up to the expectations. People can’t be blamed. It is widespread news with in the area that PC was voted out this time, but he barely managed to cling on using his “techniques”- and became home minister again.


If this is not KARMA, then……..?