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Saik - INC = Kala Angrez is a right acronym you have coined. its a step different from Brown Angrez who are just snobbish and stiff upper lip, the Kala Angrez have inherited and refined all the black qualities of the gora angrez, taken it, refined it, distilled it and have emerged as a pure poison...a black shroud that deadens the land as it did the ancient forests around Eisengaard.
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khan trying hard to show its importance from inside the self-created monkey trap:

Washington: Asserting that there has been no change in its visa policy, the US on Tuesday said Narendra Modi who has been named BJP's prime ministerial candidate is welcome to apply for a visa and wait for a review. "No change in our longstanding visa policy. He's welcome to apply for a visa and await a review like any other applicant," State Department Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf told reporters at her daily news conference. "Visa applications are confidential, or at least the details of them. I can check on that, but not to my knowledge," Harf said when specifically asked if Modi has applied for a US visa. UP police takes over safety of Narendra Modi In 2005, Modi was denied a diplomatic visa and his existing tourist and business visa was revoked under the Immigration and Nationality Act, which makes a foreign government official responsible for severe violations of religious freedom ineligible for a travel document.

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I don't think Modi is asking for any Visa. When he is not interested why he is bothered. He will not beg and lose his respect. Further he does not give a s..t for what US thinks and knows that once he become P.M. the khan will be begging to meet him.

From what I have seen he is not a man who takes insults lightly.
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Singha wrote:without cheating, id these two late gents.
The first one is Rickover :wink:
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Whatever, I personally think this US visa fiasco is a boon in disguise... I'd rather NM keep away from unkil and its tentacles as far as feasible. At least Desh will have some neta who is not beholden to outside powers including the biggest and baddest sooperduper power of them all as well... :)

I'm sure Sushma ben will be happy to play Hillary to NM's Obama and tour the world on an Yincredible yindia jet. Will keep her meddling out of local politics too (e.g., Haryana, K'taka and Telengana).
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Just seeing Rahul address Panchayath meeting in Jammu. Time for NM to announce Jammu state and Ladakh UT. Good entertainment.
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true, people in both places are probably fed up with the way the little nehru valley is pampered inspite of perennial bratty behaviour.
once the tunnel under rohtang pass to ladakh is done, the rent seeking behaviour of the valley leaders due to strategic TSP type location will also cease.
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Singha wrote:true, people in both places are probably fed up with the way the little nehru valley is pampered inspite of perennial bratty behaviour.
once the tunnel under rohtang pass to ladakh is done, the rent seeking behaviour of the valley leaders due to strategic TSP type location will also cease.
I am waiting for that game changing moment.
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did not know rohtang pass to ladakh tunnel is being done.. had been only upto rohtang pass.. burf came, and the rental car would not go and stopped at a dhaaba just about 1k feet below the pass. beautiful place... visited some 20 years back on solo mission post ayodhya problem days.
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Current political affairs are nothing but replay of unfinished indian-independence movement.

The seeds of 3rd wave of Indian independence movement were sown in 1857. But that was a premature move by the nationalists. The nation was yet to realize the transfer of power from Mughals to Marathas to colonial powers. Majority of population was happy to get some breathing space that came with British law and order machinery. There was exponential improvement in peoples' lives compared to the chaos of Mughal-Maratha feuds. British officers like Meadows Taylor were affectionately called Baba Mahadev and Arthur Cotton Bagiratha by grateful Indians. That was why majority of the nation did not participate in Sepoy mutiny and British was able to curtail it quickly.

Sepoy mutiny of 1857 exposed the limits of British empire. Before the nationalists could make their next move something else happened in world geopolitical scene. The concept of nation state and national armies came in to being. This put a new challenge to nationalist forces. They cannot win India piecemeal any more. They had to fight for entire India and win it all at once.

Another challenge was that the nationalist forces did not have any geographical space to build their base and gain strength. So they were left with two options. Make a base outside India proper or find a new paradigm to fight from within.

British preempted the first option by selective targeting of revolutionaries who made an effort in that direction. They tried to preempt the second option by facilitating the creation of Indian National Congress party under British constitution and law.

Tilak faction tried to counter this challenge by seeking outright Swarajya. British played a smart game by hand-picking the opposition they wanted using Gokhale and Gandhi. All opponents of this faction were sent to Mandalay where their fighting spirit was broken down. Thru Gandhi they tried to remove the armed revolution option completely from future scenarios. Subhash Chandrabose tried to out-maneuver British by going to the first option. He tried to build a base in extended India and elsewhere. Burma was separated in 1937 to control the damage and to keep India in British hold.

Gandhi tried to slip away from British control in early 1940s. British cut him off from the scene and in a normal scenario Gandhi would have been sent into unread pages of Indian history. 2nd world war came to India's rescue and this time the geopolitical environment went against British. So they engineered the power transfer to players of their choice.

What India saw in 1947 is not independence. It was just transfer of power. As part of this design, British ensured that their power networks remained safe during the power transfer. Pakistan demand was manufactured and facilitated in 1947. Kashmir and Hyderabad were left unsolved. The option given to 550+ principalities was to ensure that the new Indian polity was kept busy making deals with all these principalities and shared power with them. One can see how many parliament seats were controlled by the representatives of various principalities to understand the impact of this strategy.

Nehru as congress leader became new viceroy of India. The congress party of 1947 was nothing but the congress that was created under British constitution and law. India remained as member of British commonwealth. Entire Indian administration and majority of laws remained same. Constitution of India was written by British educated and trained professionals. These power groups ensured that the nationalist remnants did not remove any colonial structures from the new constitution.

The nationalist forces in post independence environment entered the next wave of independence movement. The nationalist faction had to solve two layers of invading influences now. Once again the revolutionary faction took an armed revolution route under the guise of communism for it appeared to be the easiest option to erase both layers of colonial ideological influences on Indian population. At the same time they had to find a new base outside India in order to fight the Indian state. The choices were USSR and China. Indian state countered this move by going close to USSR and even China. Then 1962 happened and it opened a new base for Communists in the form of China.

The political nationalists faction tried to emulate Indian National Congress 2 under Jayaprakash Narayan's movement. Congress countered it thru emergency and like British they too exposed their soft belly with this maneuver. The new Tilak faction became BJP. The caste based parties were nothing but new principalities or protectorates of congress party.

Now we are getting close to 1940s redux. The economic downturn of 2008 has the same effect on Congress as WW2 had on British. The congress empire realized this and hence is trying to identify the opposition it wants to transfer the power.

Congress's first option is the third-front if possible as its successor for it will secure the hold of power networks established by colonial powers. The problem with this option is the revolutionist faction in the guise of communist parties.

So congress tried the second option. Creating a new Gokhale in BJP. Advani tried to be the new Gokhale with Nitish Kumar as his Gandhi. But Modi, the new Tilak, outmaneuvered them and secured the leadership position.

Congress is trying to undo Modi by sending him to modern version of Mandalay jail using 2002 riots or fake encounter cases but is not able to succeed. Fortunately congress does not have the freedom British had in 19th century in using state power brazenly.

This lead to the non-state actor attack option on Modi in Bihar. The congress protectorate principalities are helping congress in this game.

Luckily the general public of today has better knowledge of history and politics compared their predecessors in 19th century. In addition to that democracy gave them a direct say in shaping India's future. The brain drain of 1990s is coming back in the form of internet Hindus.

What happens in 2014 elections will determine if the political-nationalists get to power or congress gets to transfer power to next wave of colonial structures. The new unsolved problems will be economy, Islamic terrorism and corruption.

Congress is trying to hold the population on its side using MNREGA, Direct Cash transfer and FSB type bills. It hopes to create new Meadows and Cottons for Indian poor using these schemes. But overall economic progress in India and uncontrolled inflation is limiting the potential of this strategy.

If political-nationalists win the elections, then we will see some secession demands from regions under colonial ideological control. Statements like 'cannot live in Modi's India' fall under this category. The political-nationalists will also have to facilitate the reintegration of caste-based principalities one way or the other. One way to handle this is by offering state specific economic packages with tight nationalist oversight.

If congress succeeds in transferring power to new Nehrus then it will start the next wave of independence movement.
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^^+1. Nicely narrated....
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Congress is trying to undo Modi by sending him to modern version of Mandalay jail using 2002 riots or fake encounter cases but is not able to succeed. Fortunately congress does not have the freedom British had in 19th century in using state power brazenly.
Does this prove that there are still some nationalists entrenched within the security apparatus and the judiciary which helped to save NaMo's life and reputation all these years ( even when he was at his lowest power and could have been wiped off without even a murmur)?

Else, i cant imagine getting clean chits from SC, SIT etc if even the judiciary was completely under CongI.
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sum wrote:

Congress is trying to undo Modi by sending him to modern version of Mandalay jail using 2002 riots or fake encounter cases but is not able to succeed. Fortunately congress does not have the freedom British had in 19th century in using state power brazenly.
Does this prove that there are still some nationalists entrenched within the security apparatus and the judiciary which helped to save NaMo's life and reputation all these years ( even when he was at his lowest power and could have been wiped off without even a murmur)?

Else, i cant imagine getting clean chits from SC, SIT etc if even the judiciary was completely under CongI.
Saar - there are plenty of honest officers, in all departments. Not everything is as corrupt as the public is led to believe. My dad used to audit a lot of departments in the 1980s, and he used to say that even among the corrupt departments (like the police), most officers will help governments in power by omission, rather than by commission. To find enough police officers who will go out of the way to destroy opposition politicians by faking evidence and creating false affidavits and witnesses (by commission) is hard.
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Manoj kureel is unsparing of CongI dramabazi...

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Note the smoke signal emanating from the CongI's posterior...
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Aspirational admi

:eek: Somebody like Jug Suraiya, long known for a Dynasty-loyalist, has started to "get it" as to why Modi is the phenomenon he is. The tide has definitely turned sharply in NaMo's favour, folks.
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^^^

We will see, when the voting is over and the votes polled are tallied. Just what is the value of the aspiration of the Indian masses. As we have no clue of what the rural India is thinking about.
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Raat ka bada pata hai in salo ko. :rotfl:

Btw kaun bola ye ? Abhishek Manu Singhvi ?
Didn't want to mention it, but our so called apolitical Strategic experts. That above was B Raman's twitter declaration.
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going by his tweets in his last days I am leaning to the POV that those comments were firmly tongue in cheek. the old intel czar played a high stakes chankian game.
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Narendra Modi’s lack of knowledge on Sardar Patel, history matter of big concern: Shashi Tharoor

Narendra Modi is an intelligent and shrewd man. But, frankly, he is not a very particularly well-educated and well-read man, Shashi Tharoor, Union Minister and biographer of Nehru tells ET.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/new ... 239210.cms

Shashi Tharoor dare not talk about the education of his party chief and deputy chief!
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Did we have NDA in 1991, when RG senior was killed by LTTE? This INC minister seems to think so.

‘Modi has NSG cover, NDA didn’t even give Rajiv Gandhi SI security’
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Pratyush wrote:^^^

We will see, when the voting is over and the votes polled are tallied. Just what is the value of the aspiration of the Indian masses. As we have no clue of what the rural India is thinking about.
From what little I have observed, rural India is fully into the fold. It is the urban oh-so-smart-and-secular people who worry me. I've heard quite a few (otherwise achiever in their own field) people saying with some contempt in their eyes that "running a state is quite different than running an entire country" or something like that. They say this in a manner as if they are giving us a bramha-gyan.
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Regarding NM being called Hitler, the bollywood and tellywood has used the word so lightly and liberally over the decades that he has become an icon of disciplinism, conduct and ideology. All three go well with NM and people desperately want such a man on the chair - not someone like cheeky papooh. In fact even the learned people respect Hitler very much in India.

Recently a few German academic researchers visited a collage in my city. They were astonished by the amount of knowledge and respect the students had for Hitler. On the last day in a function they said that they appreciate Indians for giving respect to their leader but Hitler was no good man but was merely a mass murderer only and that no German can like him. Even to that point the students countered them and said that at least he was a nationalist and fought for the country's pride, the WWII was full of killings committed by both sides so Churchill was equally a monster :lol: . They also advised the Germans that the brits were winners so they wrote their version of history but being German they should study alternative view points also :mrgreen: .

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From http://www.gossipguru.in
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An eye on Modi

Narendra Modi continues to be a thorn in the side of the Central government as well as Congress. Sources reveal that the Congress wants to tangle Modi in legal tangles in some way or another so that his dreams for becoming the prime minister become distant. If sources are to be believed, Modi’s name may be included in the December chargesheet in the Ishrat Jahan and Sohrabuddin case. But the Congress does not want him to be arrested or the BJP may get psychological advantage of the same.
Modi’s Ahmad Patel

BJP vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi’s new political avatar has shocked those from this party and those who are in opposition of the party. After the recent sunrise of Narendra Modi’s career within the party, Naqvi’s stature in the party has increased. He is being called NaMo’s ears, eyes and nose in Delhi. He is not only a part of NaMo’s kitchen cabinet, he also gives frequent updates to him from Delhi. People from the party were surprised when on the occasion of Sardar Patel’s birth anniversary, Modi invited only two people from Delhi for the unveiling of Patel’s statue – Advani and Naqvi. A national Indian daily took advantage of the incident and called Naqvi Modi’s Ahmad Patel. It was Naqvi who brought in Modi’s ambitious “Vision document for empowerment of minorities” to attract the country’s minority communities. He is not only heading Modi’s war room but is also making his opinion on things known to prominent party leaders. No wonder Naqvi’s a hit.
Notice to Vasundhara

In the recent survey in Rajasthan, Congress under the leadership of Ashok Gehlot is far behind that of Vasundhara Raj-led BJP. Thus the Congress has decided to adopt the policy of saam, daam, dund, bhed (reason, bribe, punishment, divide). Understanding the intentions of the Central government led by the Congress, the Income Tax department has sent a notice to Vasundhara Raje and asked her for the details of spending $4 million through the credit card in the past three financial years. Vasundhara is no less and she is going to make this notice an election point, too. She is going to ask for Ashok Gehlot’s financial details in the last five years.
The overseas connection

The governor of a significant state is also working towards getting Amit Shah away from all the legal tangles. He is an old hand at law, and he also has close associations with those in the legal world. The whole matter also has a London connection, which is attached to the welfare sector.
Rahul’s intentions

Congrss Number Two Rahul Gandhi may not have come up to the mark in political oratory, but no one can blame him for trying to clean the Congress’ image and change its character and workings for the better. Rahul had some doubts over the 11 names that have been nominated by the party for Delhi’s Assembly elections. The report card about the Assembly members that Rahul had got showed these people to be steeped in corruption. So the Congress vice-president cancelled their tickets; most of these were considered to have gotten the hand of protection of Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. So once she saw these peoples’ tickets being cancelled, Sheila went and requested Sonia to intervene. Sonia is a seasoned politician and she assured the chief minister that the names of these 11 will be included in the next list; but several of Sheila’s own will have their ticket cut for sure.
Delhi for Rs 85 crore

Congress has fixed its budget for Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh and Delhi. And although the Election Commission is going to be keeping a keen eye on the party and candidates’ election spend, the Congress has fixed a budget of Rs 85 crore for Delhi and Rs 165 crore Madhya Pradesh. Where star campaigners are concerned for elections in the two states, Congress is betting with all it had on Sonia and Rahul. The Prime Minister is more or less like a newly-wed bride – his face will be seen only a few times at a few elections rallies.
Behenji deputy PM

BSP supremo Mayavati is on a high these days. Just like the SP, the BSP, too, conducted a public survey in UP a few days ago and the results show the BSP getting about 30 Lok Sabha seats, provided the Muslim-Brahmin voters toe the BSP line. After the survey results, BSP supremo conducted an important meeting with party members, which included several Rajya Sabha Parliamentarians. Of them Jugal Kishore gave his opinion to behenji saying that if the BSP is indeed getting 30 seats, it should consider being a part of the government and behenji should be the deputy PM if not the PM. It is believed that this opinion by Jugal Kishore got a mute approval from Mayavati.
Modi’s friend Marandi

Narendra Modi is constantly trying to find new partners for NDA. Modi is trying to appease long-time friend Babulal Marandi. Modi has given the responsibility to an industrialist from Vasant Vihar Mahesh Bhagchand (who is known to give expensive gifts to political leaders) to get Marandi into the BJP fold. It is worth mentioning here that this industrialist also has close relations with Marandi. But after several rounds of talks, Marandi called up Modi and told him that he isn’t ready to join the BJP as yet. That is because his newly-formed party Jharkhand Vikas Morcha is emerging as the only strong alternative to Jharkhand Mukti Morcha. State’s Christian and Santhal voters are joining the party in large numbers. The main point is he can’t trust the BJP President Rajnath Singh at all because he can go to any extent to encourage his protégé Arjun Munda. And he had left the party because of Rajnath Singh and today the BJP’s reins are in his hands. No wonder he doesn’t even want to look at the BJP, although he may be open to post-poll alliance.
Manoranjana’s antics at the saffron camp

Manoranjana Singh’s name attracted headlines first when she married Congress heavyweight Mangat Singh, a minister from the north-east who was considered to be close to Narsimha Rao. With time, she became the chairperson of NE Television owned by Mangat Singh. When the Sharada Chitfund scam in West Bengal got attention, Manoranjana Singh’s name cropped up here, too. After issues with her husband for many years, Manoranjana has carved out a path for herself and now wants to enter the arena of active politics. She wants to contests the elections from Tejpur or Silchar in Assam from the BJP’s ticket. For the past few days, she is said to have come close to former BJP President Nitin Gadkari. Manoranjana’s ties with the Sangh go back a long way because her father K N Gupta was an efficient and able journalist who believed in the Sangh philosophy. He edited Motherland, considered to the Sangh’s mouthpiece, for a long time. Yet, a few days ago, people were nothing less than shocked when they saw Manoranjana Singh share the stage with the likes of Sangh head Mohan Bhagwat and BJP’s Gadkari in Nagpur. If a woman is seen in a Sangh programme, sharing centrestage with the Sangh head and former BJP president, you can imagine the extent of her influence.
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So NaMo doing what BRF-ites were clamouring for:
Narendra Modi is constantly trying to find new partners for NDA. Modi is trying to appease long-time friend Babulal Marandi. Modi has given the responsibility to an industrialist from Vasant Vihar Mahesh Bhagchand (who is known to give expensive gifts to political leaders) to get Marandi into the BJP fold. It is worth mentioning here that this industrialist also has close relations with Marandi.
The main point is he can’t trust the BJP President Rajnath Singh at all because he can go to any extent to encourage his protégé Arjun Munda. And he had left the party because of Rajnath Singh and today the BJP’s reins are in his hands. No wonder he doesn’t even want to look at the BJP, although he may be open to post-poll alliance.
Also,
The governor of a significant state is also working towards getting Amit Shah away from all the legal tangles. He is an old hand at law, and he also has close associations with those in the legal world. The whole matter also has a London connection, which is attached to the welfare sector.
Why would a INC pasand governor do this?
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#Congoons want ban on Diyas..
After making the bizarre demand of covering lotus flowers, the Madhya Pradesh unit of Congress now seems to have a problem with diyas (earthen lamps) too. The party has objected to the use of diyas in advertisements saying the symbol whips up religious feelings.

A BJP advertisement published in the newspapers on Sunday —on the occasion of Diwali — carried a photograph of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and a lit diya with a slogan "let the flame of development lit up every house and corner of the state". But the Congress objected to the use of diya and complained to the Election Commission terming it violation of the model code of conduct. "He (Chouhan) is a star campaigner (of the BJP). By displaying a symbol that is associated with only one community by tradition, culture and religion, the BJP has attempted to rouse religious feelings,'' stated the complaint sent to the Election Commission by state Congress vice-president (Organisation) Rameshwar Nikhra.

While the demand for covering lotus flowers was made by a couple of small-time leaders, the complaint about diya has been officially lodged by the party.


http://www.indianexpress.com/news/now-c ... s/1191026/
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This secularism debate in India is getting a bit stale. I don't see how a doctrine that can partition India into 3-4 pieces is deserving of being specially protected. Particularly so if you consider the total population of a unpartitioned combined India would have been 50-50. I would go so far to say that those that deserve protection from the state are those that didn't want the nation to be broken!
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harbans wrote:#Congoons want ban on Diyas..

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http://www.indianexpress.com/news/now-c ... s/1191026/
They are absolutely right. SSC should have postured with paki flags around instead of diya. And his hand gesture had to be that of 'aadab' while wearing the skull cap and pathani suit. That is the only way to greet Diwali to people. What is this communal lamp-shamp in Diwali, hain ji? In fact this was done deliberately to provoke riots in MP to massacre innocent and peaceful minorities.

PS: People are seeing the antics of these morons. They will not be spared. BJP should go to streets with such news.
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^ Afaik most people open their left hand with fingers aligned together early in the morning for rinsing musharraf and it is truly secular as people from all religions do this religiously, kangress ka hath apke sath :)
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^^^ Negi ji, I totally love your location :rotfl:
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KJoishy wrote:Rahul Gandhi should challenge Narendra Modi to a televised debate on national issues. :D
You are asking intellectually challenged person to debate NaMO?? Dho dalana hai kya???
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Just saw this on my facebook newsfeed. FWIW. Proof that Aam Aadmi Party is a Front of Congress, Survey is false

Daal mein kuch toh zaroor kaala hai/No smoke without fire...
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dhruvM sadhuvad and kudos to that gentelmen, that is now called 'real' journalism!!
Please spread the news far and wide!!
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chaanakya wrote:
KJoishy wrote:Rahul Gandhi should challenge Narendra Modi to a televised debate on national issues. :D
You are asking intellectually challenged person to debate NaMO?? Dho dalana hai kya???
my bets would be pappu will win. our aam can understand him as an influence with heavy Gandhi lineage and dynasty. what can modi do other than keeping fighting from dynastic freedom and good governance model? does aam understand all these, when they are in RKM state of mind (roti kapada..)?

like caging millions of free tigers, and asking them to be ferocious in the wild suddenly after 60 years of geo-dynastical-subduction.
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Another inane debate on security. People love going around in circles. Security cover is logically extended for 2 reasons:

1. How much National security is affected if the said person is Killed
2. Degree of Threat Perception.

The degree of threat perception is not completely proportional to the security level. It will peter off at some point of time if point 1 is not affected. But if Point 1 is affected badly even if the threat perception is not high then better give the best cover you have! Modi is at risk from both 1 and 2. A person like Vadra is low on 1 and 2. Same with Priyanka. RG because hes standing in elections will have a higher 1-2 risk. Same with Sonia. A local leader like Jogi will be high on Threat perception 2 but low on 1. Can be given some level below max security. PM very high on 1 and 2. NM is same! Logically == security cover is needed ASAP!
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another attempt on modi, then kalangrez is history for larger wave centric voters. my question is this, why is that polling does not include those who don't vote? what do they think for 2014? will they participate?
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This noise about security will ensure that mafia is put on notice. Today Kumar Kethkar of paid media saying on times now that any attack on Modi will result in unimaginable consequences as he is a very polarizing figure.

One thing Modi need to do is stop behaving like Atal2. Muslims are not going to vote for him and there is a small danger of Hindu voters may be put off. Why take that risk. Sena already started making noice.
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