Narendra Modi vs the Dynasty: Contrasting Ideas of India

krishnan · Post by **krishnan** » 14 Sep 2013 12:19

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#Advani's last hope: Vajpayee makes a last minute entrance in the Parliamentary Committee meeting and shouts 'Yeh nomination nahi ho sakti!'

most of the tweets are really good

JohnTitor · Post by **JohnTitor** » 14 Sep 2013 12:23

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/video/like ... 09712.html

KJP will support NDA/NaMo

Vipin_Upadhyay · Post by **Vipin_Upadhyay** » 14 Sep 2013 12:54

Now, the first compromise that NaMo has to make with D4 is resign from Election Campaign chief, this is going to happen sooner or later. I think Sushma attended NaMo coronation yesterday on this particular condition.

I am skeptical with anyone other than NaMo/Amit Shah holding this crucial EC position since ticket distribution is going to be affected & a lot of freeloaders might sneak-in with BJP ticket if D4 have their major say.

A thorough cleansing is needed starting with Vijay Goel & Ananth Kumar, but NaMo has to wait for some time considering the volatile situation in Bhajapa today & latest meeting of Sushma, Ananth Kumar at Loh Purush residence.

Hari Seldon · Post by **Hari Seldon** » 14 Sep 2013 13:59

^^IMO< the resign from campaign committee chief 'condition' is media mischief. I see no reason for NM to do so. I don;t see why the sangh or RNS will agree.

kittoo · Post by **kittoo** » 14 Sep 2013 14:03

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Apply here- http://eci-citizenservices.nic.in/ (For new card, change of entry, change in place of voting etc.)
Guide- http://mkcloasis.in/eci-citizenservices ... ation/252/

ANd also, share as much as possible.

Lilo · Post by **Lilo** » 14 Sep 2013 14:25

New Delhi: The results for the Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) elections were declared on Saturday with BJP-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) bagging the most while Congress-backed National Students' Union of India (NSUI) managed to win only one.

While ABVP candidate Raju Rawat was elected as the joint secretary, Aman Awana and Utkarsh Chaudhary were elected as president and vice-president respectively.

NSUI managed to bag only one seat with Karishma Thakur being elected as the secretary.

The polls, held to elect the office bearers of the students’ union at DU and JNU, saw a voters’ turnout of around 40 and 56 per cent respectively.
http://zeenews.india.com/news/delhi/dus ... 76418.html

@waitinginwings With all that booze & radio spots NSUI could not win DUSU elections. Hope the money power fails Congress all over India! Congrats #ABVP!

Precursor to Delhi assembly - middle class is dead against incumbents - NaMo has to push for the right CM candidate to rally the anger and aspirations

harbans · Post by **harbans** » 14 Sep 2013 14:40

Is Jaitly going to be the Poll campaign Chief? What is going to be the impact of that decision if at all, any views?

panduranghari · Post by **panduranghari** » 14 Sep 2013 15:00

Vipin_Upadhyay wrote:
Theo_Fidel wrote:Well, Congrats to NM.
Hope he can work to put together a majority coalition.
My hope is for him to put together a straight forward policy document on what he intends to do.
Ironically, Every CONgressi is sarcastically "hoping" almost same what you have said just now.

But as a NaMo supporter I will NOT hope for a coalition. My first hope is BJP lead by NaMo gets 272+ on their own.
If not then with like minded parties such as SS+akalis+JJ+Naidu.

As far as putting policy document is concerned, Indian democracy has long tradition of manifesto by leading parties before elections. I am sure BJP manifesto will have a NaMo "feel" in it this time

Some people prefer schadenfreude to being passive onlookers or active participants.

Eg.
*majority coalition
*policy document which HAS TO BE straightforward

chaanakya · Post by **chaanakya** » 14 Sep 2013 15:32

Muppalla wrote:
chaanakya wrote:BJP might get about 100 seats from UP and Bihar+Jharkhand. Akhi and Nikku aren't going to make it big.
It is not easy. We all want to see. It is possible but Modi has to polarize so much in UP to get 40+ seats. The assumption above is that all forward caste plus all non-Yadav BC+OBC vote for BJP. Any break either via sabotage or via bad selection of candidates it will be difficult.

Note: 40 districts means it is about 45 seats.

While it is all in the realm of guesstimate, I can say with some margin of error that BJP will sweep Bihar. NiKu is badly hurt and he may or may not realise it. And even Yadavas have voted against Laloo at the height of despair in Bihar. I have added Jharkhand together to see about 40 + seats. And I am telling feelings of ordinary Biharis. Time will tell only.

Out of 85 in UP BJP has to get 60+. No precedence but then silent tsunami may put paid to all best laid plans of SP or BSP or INC.

People will vote for NaMo and not essentially for BJP. Let us see what Manifesto is put out . That will serve to sway voters as they would understand that NaMo is capable of implementing them.

One can be wrong in all analysis but NaMo has not given much reason to feel otherwise.

chaanakya · Post by **chaanakya** » 14 Sep 2013 15:38

Well AVBP has captured DUSU seats President , VP and JS posts.NSUI got Secy post only. Result announced now. Pointers to future.

Hari Seldon · Post by **Hari Seldon** » 14 Sep 2013 15:51

At the risk of reading too much into the DUSU poll, some pointers (TIFWIW): (i) turnout was unusually high (ii) NSUI misused money power bigtime - their posters and hoardings were like everywhere only. (iii) Initial leads did go to NSUI. Was cause for premature mijjile firings by the loikes of sanjay jha and priyanka chaturvedi (INC spokie) on twitter (iv) when tide turned, it did so, like, decisively only.

Sure, DUSU ain't India. But if its a microcosm for Dilli alone, there's hope. Too bad AAP didn't also field its spoiler candidates in the fray.

JohnTitor · Post by **JohnTitor** » 14 Sep 2013 16:14

Pardon my ignorance but what does DUSU elections have anythin to do with the general elections? I understand that these are youth wings but how is that a reflection of the rest of india?

Lilo · Post by **Lilo** » 14 Sep 2013 16:23

ABVP rarely (you can say never) wins any student elections. That it has won in DU in Congi heartland is jaw dropping under ordinary circumstances. This shows the presence of a wave. Inspite of all the money spent by congis ( they are on the cusp of an assembly election in Delhi) - they lost. This is significant .

All those Students were on the forefront of anti rape agitations during 2013 beginning. Looks like embers are still burning.

Pranav · Post by **Pranav** » 14 Sep 2013 16:32

IMO manipulation of EVMs is the major hurdle between now and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

niran · Post by **niran** » 14 Sep 2013 16:38

Lilo wrote:.

All those Students were on the forefront of anti rape agitations during 2013 beginning. Looks like embers are still burning.

of course when you are lathi charged and hosed down then you will remember it life long.

Rahul M · Post by **Rahul M** » 14 Sep 2013 16:40

afaik abvp regularly wins DU.

Lilo · Post by **Lilo** » 14 Sep 2013 16:47

Rahul ji, that was in late 90s

Wiki tells out of last 13 elections 3 times there was ABVP president rest NSUI.

vivek.rao · Post by **vivek.rao** » 14 Sep 2013 16:48

http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?287799

Every Muslim—whether riot victim or shaken by the violence—blames the SP for being unable to protect them from the ideology peddled by Modi and Amit Shah. Conversely, many Hindus are assured in the knowledge that the BJP is there to “save them, and their religious and cultural values in the times of Muslim appeasement at both the Centre and the state”. Undoubtedly, all political gain from the riots is reaped by the BJP. “This time round, Jats, Thakurs, even scheduled castes would vote for Modi, because Hindu hopes rest in Modi,” says the priest of the Durga Mata Mandir in Muzaffarnagar town. From cemeteries, tea shops and small hamlets to the Civil Lines area of Muzaffarnagar, NaMo has snaffled more space in political debates, discussions and arguments than anyone else. His is a pervasive presence.

member_20292 · Post by **member_20292** » 14 Sep 2013 16:52

RamaY wrote:Sashi Tharoor will be next Diggy Raja of congress

i heard arun jaitley and shashi tharoor back to back on ndtv yesterday.

Arun Jaitley was really good. what an incisive mind he's got.

Shashi was positively smarmy in comparison. All grand, cliches.

SwamyG · Post by **SwamyG** » 14 Sep 2013 17:06

TN BJP has sent feelers to Rajnikanth urging him to join BJP. Out of 39 seats, I predict TN to yield BJP. 390 seats onlee

kittoo · Post by **kittoo** » 14 Sep 2013 17:20

Pranav wrote:IMO manipulation of EVMs is the major hurdle between now and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Thats why I am hoping that Paper Trail Verified EVMs get used in the next elections. Though as of now it seems that a total of 16 lac EVMs will be used in the upcoming elections, with only 2 lacs being 'compatible' with Paper Trail.

harbans · Post by **harbans** » 14 Sep 2013 17:24

DUSU all 4 seats to ABVP. Is this a major change from the usual scene at DUSU?

subhamoy.das · Post by **subhamoy.das** » 14 Sep 2013 17:27

Every body who rides a bicycle and up will now vote for Namo because he holds the promise of a better life!

kittoo · Post by **kittoo** » 14 Sep 2013 17:31

harbans wrote:DUSU all 4 seats to ABVP. Is this a major change from the usual scene at DUSU?

I think 3 seats went to ABVP. Lilo mention above that in past 13 years, ABVP has won the president seat only 3 times.

Sanku · Post by **Sanku** » 14 Sep 2013 17:45

Surya wrote:where is sanku?

Was having a Glenlivet 16 year old with Montecristo no 2, onlee saar.

I see I am being missed though.

fanne · Post by **fanne** » 14 Sep 2013 17:46

DUSU elections have been a good parameter for mood of Delhi (at least, you can speculate also the middle/upper class of Bihar and little up, as most DUSU students are from these areas). You can have a strong correlation on what DUSU does and what happens in Delhi Assembly. No wonder, Con won 10 out of 13 last elections (and has been in power in Delhi for as many years)!! You have to see all 4 seats, not just president. Other tit bit, last DUSU election was brazen, as in, it is alleged, musle power and money power from Hooda sat inside the counting booth and even overturned results (google please).

harbans · Post by **harbans** » 14 Sep 2013 17:47

Folks i think this NM fuss is all useless. Just got this confirmation:

harbans · Post by **harbans** » 14 Sep 2013 17:49

Fanne, Kittoo thanks. BTW ABVP has won all 4 seats. (Twitteratii)

Sushupti · Post by **Sushupti** » 14 Sep 2013 17:53

Vipin_Upadhyay wrote:Now, the first compromise that NaMo has to make with D4 is resign from Election Campaign chief, this is going to happen sooner or later. I think Sushma attended NaMo coronation yesterday on this particular condition.

I am skeptical with anyone other than NaMo/Amit Shah holding this crucial EC position since ticket distribution is going to be affected & a lot of freeloaders might sneak-in with BJP ticket if D4 have their major say.

A thorough cleansing is needed starting with Vijay Goel & Ananth Kumar, but NaMo has to wait for some time considering the volatile situation in Bhajapa today & latest meeting of Sushma, Ananth Kumar at Loh Purush residence.

All these stateless leaders are dreaming too much if they think it's possible for them to dictate the terms after their patron is almost politically dead. It's RSS which playing Krishna with Modi as Arjuna against Kouravas of BJP Dilli-Billi. Come out if you want to be annihilated.

Victor · Post by **Victor** » 14 Sep 2013 17:59

Pranav wrote:IMO manipulation of EVMs is the major hurdle between now and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

This is a worry. Swami forced EC to provide paper confirmation of a vote but it is still not a paper trail afaik and can't be used for a recount if needed. The EVMs are still vulnerable.

Sushupti · Post by **Sushupti** » 14 Sep 2013 18:03

The shifting stories of five years

MJ Akbar

One useful aspect of a grand old house in Europe or America was the weathervane. Stuck at the apex, it did not look very elegant, but its value was not measured by aesthetics. It gauged the direction of the wind in an age when nature had far more control over human affairs.

The British built the grand imperial cities of Kolkata, Madras, Mumbai, and, in the 20th century, New Delhi. But there were no weathervanes, possibly because nature is more predictable in India. When it rains it pours. When storms arrive, dark clouds swirl across the sky as advance battle formations. Delhi is not London, where you can perspire as you leave home, get caught in a chilly shower and return with a cold.

But what Delhi has lost in external sensors, it more than compensates through internal aerials. Human nature is the worry in Delhi, not nature. In that special patch of the capital which provides temporary housing to the various castes of the ruling class, every ear has a powerful antenna, constantly fine-tuned to pick up the waft and flow of that dramatic phenomenon called the political wind.

Delhi's layers of power brokers have not survived the rise and fall of empires without an acute sense of homage to those on the ascendant, even when the possible has not become probable, let alone factual. A historian would do well to record how conversation has changed over the last five years in India's august capital.

In 2009, Delhi could talk of nothing else but how Congress, and its presiding Gandhi family, would rule India for the next twenty years at the very least. It was up to Rahul Gandhi to decide when he wanted to become Prime Minister, a view echoed formally by Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh at a famous press conference that year. There was much admiration, in rotund phrases, for Rahul Gandhi's choice of a waiting room as his preferred abode. A mild unease about corruption by the winter of 2010 did not much change the narrative; Rahul Gandhi's team continued to be feted at dinners and wooed as high officials of the next durbar.

Then came Anna Hazare, with Baba Ramdev in tow. Heads wagged solemnly, but the wise had seen it all. This was one of those periodic blips that must inevitably interrupt a majestic procession. It would disappear, said all the ministers deputed to swat the fly, as quickly as it had come. Had no one heard about public memory? It was short, short, short. The smiles remained wide.

Then came the shock of UP elections in 2012. The script said Congress would declare victory if it won 80 seats [a number picked up from expensive opinion polls], and this would become the arch through which Rahul Gandhi could walk towards the Prime Minister's chair. Defeat introduced the first shades of doubt.

Narendra Modi's re-election in Gujarat later that year began to change the scenario. Paradoxically, Modi aroused both apprehension and hope. His political skills and governance record were powerful assets; could Congress turn the Gujarat riots into a polarising negative? And so hundreds of opinion pieces and news stories flooded media suggesting that BJP would defeat itself if it chose Modi as its mascot.

The BJP, however, heard the voice of its cadre, which lived on the street rather than Delhi's warrens. Now that he is the party nominee for PM, to visible enthusiasm, Modi has one important thing left to worry about. So far he was surrounded only by supporters. Now he will be pursued by sycophants. That can be dangerous in a game where there continues to be many a slip between cup and lip.

Delhi is worried about Modi not because of his party, but because he is an outsider, shorn of the English-induced cultural or academic sophistications that Delhi's elites expect from anyone audacious enough to demand their services. Modi served tea to customers in his brother's teashop and his family remains linked to its roots. His English is unlikely to impress the Queen of England. But most of all, Delhi is anxious about his reputation for being tough. Delhi deals in compromise, not accountability, and no one really wants a bull rampaging through the expensive china that elites have accumulated over so many decades.

Delhi has handled outsiders before, at different levels of power. But they have mostly done Delhi the favour of proving incompetent. Lal Bahadur Shastri was the one outsider who could have changed the dynamic of this city, but he did not live long enough, and may have been scarred by the Tashkent agreement with Pakistan by then. So Delhi will resist Modi with one face, the private one, and beam with its other, public face.

It is going to be fascinating face-off for the six months left before elections.

http://www.sunday-guardian.com/analysis ... five-years

Sushupti · Post by **Sushupti** » 14 Sep 2013 18:06

Victor wrote:
Pranav wrote:IMO manipulation of EVMs is the major hurdle between now and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
This is a worry. Swami forced EC to provide paper confirmation of a vote but it is still not a paper trail afaik and can't be used for a recount if needed. The EVMs are still vulnerable.

"In case of doubt, the paper slips can be counted at the time of counting and tallied with the number of votes recorded in the voting machine's control unit."

http://www.sify.com/news/evm-paper-trai ... ajgdj.html

Sushupti · Post by **Sushupti** » 14 Sep 2013 18:10

Jounalist or Islamist mercenary? She deleted the tweet.

Sushupti · Post by **Sushupti** » 14 Sep 2013 18:21

More material for Soosai theory

Hari Seldon · Post by **Hari Seldon** » 14 Sep 2013 18:22

Sreesanth criticizes Modi in an attempt to get life ban revoked

Kochi. Former fast bowler and one of the leading dancers of India, S. Sreesanth has criticized Narendra Modi’s anointment as BJP’s PM candidate in very strong words in an attempt to enter the good books of the ruling coalition, UPA.

It should be noted that on the day Modi was announced as PM’s candidate by BJP, Sreesanth was banned from Cricket for life by BCCI for his involvement in the spot-fixing scandal that rocked the Indian Premier League earlier this year.

Addressing the media earlier today, Sreesanth said, “A leader as divisive and polarizing as Modi should never be allowed to lead India. This is a great threat to democracy and BJP should not project him as their PM candidate.”
Sreesanth

When this Faking News reporter told him that media had gathered to hear his reaction on his lifetime ban and not to discuss Modi, Sreesanth said, “Is my career more important than the future of this country? First and foremost, we must protect the country from communal forces, my cricketing career comes second.”

Other reporters present at the press conference agreed with Sreesanth and asked this FN reporter to keep quiet as a news report on Narendra Modi was always a better deal.

As per sources, Sreesanth has privately revealed that he will go on an attack on Modi till the Lok Sabha elections to get in the good books of the government and possibly, get his ban revoked. He is expecting BCCI’s Rajiv Shukla, who is also a Congress leader, to take notice of his efforts and get his ban reversed.

A close friend of Sreesanth on the condition of anonymity told us, “Even if the ban is not revoked, at least he will secure a Lok Sabha ticket and who knows, Sports ministry in future. He has to make plans for his future now.”
“Singing and dancing is not that profitable,” the friend clarified that Sree had explored other options too.
“Generally, BCCI imposes a lifetime ban and reverses it a few years later but Sreesanth doesn’t want to rely on them alone. He is doing whatever is in his powers to get his career back on track,” Sreesanth’s friend revealed.

Muppalla · Post by **Muppalla** » 14 Sep 2013 18:23

harbans wrote:Fanne, Kittoo thanks. BTW ABVP has won all 4 seats. (Twitteratii)

abvp winning Delhi is seriously a big deal.

Atri · Post by **Atri** » 14 Sep 2013 18:24

Sushupti wrote:The shifting stories of five years

MJ Akbar

Delhi is worried about Modi not because of his party, but because he is an outsider, shorn of the English-induced cultural or academic sophistications that Delhi's elites expect from anyone audacious enough to demand their services. Modi served tea to customers in his brother's teashop and his family remains linked to its roots. His English is unlikely to impress the Queen of England. But most of all, Delhi is anxious about his reputation for being tough. Delhi deals in compromise, not accountability, and no one really wants a bull rampaging through the expensive china that elites have accumulated over so many decades.

Delhi has handled outsiders before, at different levels of power. But they have mostly done Delhi the favour of proving incompetent. Lal Bahadur Shastri was the one outsider who could have changed the dynamic of this city, but he did not live long enough, and may have been scarred by the Tashkent agreement with Pakistan by then. So Delhi will resist Modi with one face, the private one, and beam with its other, public face.
http://www.sunday-guardian.com/analysis ... five-years

RamaY wrote:Sekhar Dupatta - walk the talk with Modi in 2004.
http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/walk-t ... 004/290236

Modi moved on since then, but sekhar dupatta stuck there with no introspection and no evolution.

Exemplified by the body language of Shekhar Gupta. Look at how he talks to an elected CM of an Indian state. Especially in the end, when he starts talking pedagogically pointing finger at NM as Justive Gupta passes judgement.. More than interview, this body-language of Gupta was most hurting.

I bow to guruji NM to have shown us unwashed Ramus and Shyamus how to handle the adversary when time is against you. It is very tough to keep calm when a two-bit person like Shekhar Gupta is giving gyan to a person like NM who has risen from grass-root and done immense sadhna to reach where he was in 2004, forget today..

VinodTK · Post by **VinodTK** » 14 Sep 2013 18:40

Narendra Modi's rise may be BJP's strongest message

In Narendra Modi, every BJP worker sees what he might have been or what he can become, says Amberish K Diwanji

A couple of years ago, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi visited Mumbai to attend an event of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

At the event, BJP leaders trooped in, one by one, to receive a perfunctory welcome.

And then, an electric current ran through the crowd.

Narendra Modi had arrived.

The excitement was palpable. For the rank and file of the party, it was as if all their efforts had been made worthwhile only because Modi had arrived.

Various slogans rent the air, the loudest being "Desh ka pradhan mantri kaisa ho?" and the ear-splitting roar "Narendra Modi jaisa ho!" ("Who should the country's PM be like?", "He should be like Narendra Modi!")

What was even more interesting to watch -- while all these theatrics went on -- was the priceless look on the faces of all the other “leaders” of the BJP. None of them joined in the shouting, cheering or even clapping.

They tried to look impassive, as though saying, “All this shouting and yelling is fine, but don’t let it fool you into thinking that he will be 'our' choice for PM”.

They could see what was happening, they could hear the crowd’s clear choice, but they were wishing that it would disappear, or that all of it simply wouldn’t matter.

Instead of sharing the excitement, they seemed to resent Modi’s obvious popularity among BJP workers. It was an indication that Modi’s greatest opponents were not in the Congress but within the saffron party.

As some commentators have noted, in anointing Modi, the BJP and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh -- within which there remain sufficient reservations about the Gujarat chief minister -- have given in to the demand of the cadres.

The role that the lowly party worker plays can never be understated. They are the ones who toil in the party offices, organise massive rallies, gather people for those rallies, make sure the media (a spoilt lot that never hesitates to complain) is kept happy, and smoothen the arrangements for the party bosses.

The workers often devote years to their party’s causes and their only reward is seeing it come to power. Because then they can claim the vicarious pleasure of having helped the party achieve power and they can lord over their mohallas and locality as a member of the party in power.

These may seem like petty rewards for years of toil. But for the thousands of workers across the hundreds of offices in the country, these are worth every moment of their effort.

Over the last few years, BJP workers have been rallying around Modi, simply because they know that if there is one person who can pull off a BJP victory, it is Modi.

Let’s face it: if a sulking Advani, pouting Swaraj, hedging Rajnath Singh cannot inspire even BJP workers, how on earth will they inspire the people who are going to vote?

In Modi, party workers see one of their own. A man who started life as a RSS member, doing routine chores, and rising to the top simply by dint of hard work and his undeniably brilliant organisational talents.

In Modi, every worker sees what he might have been or what he can become. What mattered was his ability, not his pedigree.

This is in stark contrast to the top leaders chosen in the Congress party, where the foremost criterion today is your pedigree and second is loyalty to The Family. If your father or mother or uncle or aunt etc was in the Congress, rest assured you will be noticed; you may even become a member of Parliament or member of legislative assembly.

But if you are only brilliant and hardworking, the party will use those talents but rarely reward you appropriately.

How many low-rung party workers have actually become ministers in the Congress?

Hard to find any, with the singular exceptions of stenographers/private assistants to top Congress leaders, who, being privy to the most sensitive information, have been rewarded with plum posts (it ensures their continued loyalty and silence).

In a country of a billion aspirations, this might well be the BJP’s strongest message. That as a party, it believes in giving every Indian the chance to realise his/her potential, and not depend on family connections.

If the BJP top brass is not playing out this message, it is because those at the top have become complacent. Sending out a message that every worker has the potential to rise to the top means putting their own positions at risk. No wonder then that so many of the BJP’s top brass strongly resented Modi’s rise.

Irrespective of whether Modi finally becomes the prime minister, things within the BJP will never be the same. And that in itself is a good thing.

India might finally get an opposition that it deserves.

Sushupti · Post by **Sushupti** » 14 Sep 2013 18:47

Atri wrote:

Exemplified by the body language of Shekhar Gupta. Look at how he talks to an elected CM of an Indian state. Especially in the end, when he starts talking pedagogically pointing finger at NM as Justive Gupta passes judgement.. More than interview, this body-language of Gupta was most hurting.

I bow to guruji NM to have shown us unwashed Ramus and Shyamus how to handle the adversary when time is against you. It is very tough to keep calm when a two-bit person like Shekhar Gupta is giving gyan to a person like NM who has risen from grass-root and done immense sadhna to reach where he was in 2004, forget today..

May be it's because of the company and closeness these media hacks enjoys with Nehruvian cell in central BJP. Remember how Barkha Dutt was protected by one of the D4 in radia gate.

Sushupti · Post by **Sushupti** » 14 Sep 2013 18:49

BJP, TDP alliance on cards

http://m.timesofindia.com/india/BJP-TDP ... 585313.cms

Shashi Shekhar@offstumped 3m

Who needs an alliance with Naidu - go for the jugular, make a bid to usurp his base