Comments by "Rutvik" (@rutvikrs) on "What sank Bengaluru’s boat, politics, misgovernance u0026 why our cities suck" video.

When every city in India is like this why blame one party? If it comes down to that, you are blaming the wrong party.
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@stalinsampras let me quantify: 1. The problem with Congress is they have "earners" if you catch my drift. People like DK Shi and Sharief hold away in the party even more than before due to the financial position of the party. 2. I have met Siddu on several occasions as my family lives close to Varuna and he is a sophisticated bumpkin. He has great read first world ideals but little in the way to achieve them. His anti superstition laws while good on paper is used by missionaries and is a considerable cause of resentment to his own community outside of his district(ask a kuruba in Kollegal) His idpol is also a problem even for his own party members. He permanently paved the way for BJP with his Tipu divas shenanigans. 3. JD(S) has no clue about running things in Bengaluru let alone North Karnataka. They are a two agenda party, one is increasing sugarcane price in Mandya and second is real estate for the family. 4. AAP is filled with three type of people, activists who want govt deals later, idealistic working professionals who have no connection to an average voter and senior citizens with too much time raring to go at corruption. Everyone is a good Samaritan there but it's an NGO at best. 5. BJP has two kinds of people, RSS functionaries and party hoppers. Party hoppers are corrupt as hell but they have all the voter pull. What gives me hope about BJP is their ability to consume the voter bases of these party hoppers and neutralise them. Remember Janardhan Reddy of Ballari? If this was Congress he'd have bought his way to Bengaluru bt now. Instead he is a local force, bjp eats his money and his vote base keeps shifting to the party instead of him. I support BJP because they have done considerably well on infra, state finances and HDI metrics seen in NFHS-5. It's not something I am happy with but as I said best out of a lot of crooks.
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Of all the countries and continents, North America has the worst urban planning. We can't afford (ecologically not economically) to have a car based urban planning. Also the reason the administrative capital and commercial capital are separate is because of the political structure, not as a strategy to spread the load.
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@rajasecarane 1. My point is not targeting broad infrastructure but the idea that govt should separate aspects of society like industry, government, services, trade and art. 2. Coimbatore just like Mysuru has a basic issue, lack of managerial class. If physical infrastructure was the basic issue, then we would have seen every company exit Bengaluru in the 2010s. 3. Govt can enact "pull" policies by enhancing infrastructure but not "push" policies because it's natural for companies to collect in areas of expertise depth and auxiliary industry forms around it. Bengaluru has become a startup hub because it has a huge number of Subject matter experts and management graduates. It's easier to set up new companies here. Pushing them to Mysuru or Coimbatore has no appeal to them as they will have to come back to Bengaluru, Chennai, Pune or Noida when they need expertise.
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@rbansal427 Congress MLAs specifically DK Shivkumar(check his declared wealth), KJ George and a few others.
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@pajtmvorvndeifneif i think the effort was sincere. No Indian initiative can be planned or executed when the parameters are uncertain.
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And hand it over to the ones who cause this situation in the first place? Are you even aware of politics in Karnataka? 🤣
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@stalinsampras yeah but Congress and JD(S) are a motherlode of corruption. there is literally a video of Congress MLAs discussing how much DK Shi makes while sitting in the opposition. God help us if he comes to power. I'd have voted AAP if I hadn't worked with IAC and saw the inner workings of the people in charge today. BJP is the least worst of the lot.
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It simply means MP is not growing organically. Any organic growth leads to overspill and every developed country has this problem.
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@unknown01q2 you are taking a unilateral view of solving population crisis. I am saying that there is no city under modern capitalist conditions where a city specializes in a single sector. The auxiliary takes over and creates new industries and that leads to overcrowding, this explains why Tokyo and Seoul are some of the denses population. One does not start by separating commerce, industry and political centers.
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@harshgarg1448 it's only in states like that or with a political society can you "distribute" expertise and sectors. I was pointing out the same that only places with distributive policies can do it. The reason i replied is the comment matches the latter part of the video. "Separate the administration from the electorate" to their own small city. It's a terrible idea.
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Yes nothing like this ever happens in Tamil Nadu where the BJP has never come to power.
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I have to disagree with the conclusion. Any country that has separated it's political class from other components of society(Industry, commerce, finance etc) are guided democracies or have a government that detaches itself from the electorate. Any organic modern city will have overlaps forming due to network effect. Even communist China can't escape it.
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@Dogmatix-24 which is a reflection on Indian society. Indian society wants corruption whenever its demography gets power. It is wrong to separate politicians as a class when doctors, lawyers, journalists, auto drivers and every section of society has their interest group.
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We just like to blame political parties and migrants. The issue is we are clueless in a field that is new to us(urban/city planning) considering the rapid expansion that is needed to house a rapidly urbanising India. To think where we were just a few hundred years ago, it's a national shame.
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I don't think that is a.fair assessment, how do you plan for parameters which are not understood let alone set?
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It's just one of the causes. I don't think India has any modern(operative word) heritage in urban planning.
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@stalinsampras they lost because BSY had launched his own party and that split the Lingayat vote. Every party is corrupt in Karnataka, but no one does it like Congress and JD(S). One earns 100 cr sitting in opposition and the other has a permanent seat in Mandya
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Is it possible to have a peek at this?
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That is because Kerala's development is not organic and it is a political society on top of it. Any organic development leads to centralisation, Tokyo, Seoul and even Chinese cities in communist China.
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All due respect, he isn't wrong when he blames the previous government. He can't raise the ground level. Did you know that it's only in the year 2018 we created the first updated maps for rajakaluves(inter lake canal system)
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Not just as a country, as a society.
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