Narendra Modi vs the Dynasty: Contrasting Ideas of India

[disha]

Some recent work by Gujarat government.

http://www.narendramodi.in/in-pictures- ... -terminus/

They should have taken photo with GSRTC volvo buses. #BlowToModi onleeee.

[SwamyG]

http://www.firstpost.com/politics/poll- ... 89925.html

The CVoter poll also gives a largish 42 percent vote share to “others” and 205-225 seats to this amorphous grouping, raising possibilities of a Third or Fourth Front being formed with Congress support. However, a closer reading of the poll results – assuming it holds till May – shows the exact opposite: there is almost no possibility of a Third or Fourth Front after the general elections, as we shall explain later.

[RoyG]

The second phase of Congress plan is nearing. Kejriwal reigned which will now enable him to gather thousands of people and march to New Delhi. We are going to be having a color revolution soon. Emergency will be declared and MMS will be the fall guy. MMS will then step down and they will then agree to implement Lok Pal and "clean up" the system (target NDA) and then when the major leaders are in prison, resume elections. All those on the lok pal committee will be NACxalites so Sonia will resume ruling the country through the backdoor.

[Hari Seldon]

^^^ Already AAP's internal survey figures of bagging 32-36 seats nationally and damaging BJP in as many as 45 seats is doing the rounds... right on cue too... prelude to eeveeyum magic? wo knows, until its verified (or at least verifiable upon challenge) one has to be suspicious...

[Hari Seldon]

Now this is something Nitush wouldn't dare do in Bihar... Kudos to Raje, a focussed administrator in this term (and the next 2 as well)

[Saral]

don't know about his other predictions but his predictions on dilli polls seem to have been pretty accurate with very little margin of error.

That 333 seems like a load of rubbish. BJP will be happy with 220. No chance of 250+

[Kakkaji]

Sushma Swaraj should leave the BJP and join the Congress. She would be more comfortable there, and the BJP will be better off without her.

[Yagnasri]

Sushma Swaraj should leave the BJP and join the Congress. She would be more comfortable there, and the BJP will be better off without her.

She may do just that after helping mafia with Rahul gandhi 6 bills and after division of AP. May be she will be next MMS - As a reward for her services to UPA1/2

[Hari Seldon]

RSS claims Hindus are under attack across India

Even as BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is reaching out to the Muslims ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has come forward to "unite the Hindus" of Uttar Pradesh to ensure BJP's victory across the 80 constituencies in the state. RSS, which is perceived to be BJP's ideological backbone, has called for the 'unity' to thwart alleged ploys to "divide the Hindus."
On Thursday evening, in a closed-door meeting of the RSS leaders of Kashi Prant at Varanasi's Nivedita Shiksha Sadan, Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat expressed his concern over the "victimisation of the Hindus" across the country in general and Uttar Pradesh, in particular.

"The Hindus are being attacked all over India including in UP. Whatever is happening in Muzaffarnagar after the riots is the evidence. The majority community has been victimised on the pretext of checking communal violence and anti-national activities. The next government at the Centre will have to take stringent action against such forces and take firm steps to stop this trend," Bhagwat was quoted as saying.

Good. No beating around the bush but saying it like it is. Also a clear signal to parts of the state apparatus that have in the past collaborated with the C-system in crime to cease and desist henceforth. To me personally, rehabilitation of those persecuted on 'saffron terror' charges - Aseemanand, Sadhvi Pragya, Col Purohit etc would be an indication that the babucracy is going into nonpartisan or neutral mode...

Meanwhile, MJ Akbar, sharp as usual opines on Cong decline since 2011...
What ails Cong? Dwivedi may have diagnosis

[Yagnasri]

NM can not escape the ideological battle for long. We have to accept that there is Indics under attack in many places and not addressing the issue in a GE is not a option. May be he himself does not do but BJP should do this in door to door canvassing and local meetings.

[anmol]

Powell meets Rajnath,pitches for FDI in retail
by Express News Service, indianexpress.com
March 26th 2013 3:20 AM

The US envoy to India is learnt to have offered to make a presentation to the BJP leadership regarding the pullout of NATO forces from Afghanistan,and also pitched for FDI in retail.

US ambassador to India Nancy Powell met BJP president Rajnath Singh,who expressed concerns about the security implications for South Asia after NATO forces are pulled out from Afghanistan next year. “Keeping in mind the proposed withdrawal of NATO forces from Afghanistan beginning in 2014,he (Rajnath) expressed concerns over the evolving security scenario in the South Asian region,” said a press communique issued by the party after Powell called on Singh at the latter’s residence. During the meeting,which was attended by Vijay Jolly,convener of overseas affairs of the BJP,and Sudhanshu Trivedi,political advisor to Singh,the US envoy was learnt to have pitched for FDI in multi-brand retail trade in India. Sources claimed that Singh reiterated his party’s opposition regarding the move.

Interestingly,in what appears to be a reflection of the US courting the BJP in the wake of the next Lok Sabha elections,a delegation of US Parliamentarians,led by Aaron Schock,will meet BJP leaders L K Advani,Rajnath Singh,Sushma Swaraj and Narendra Modi during their visit to the country between March 27 and April 6.

More Engagement With India

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
February 13, 2014

The decision by the United States to have its ambassador to India, Nancy Powell, meet Narendra Modi, a star of the country’s Bharatiya Janata opposition party, reversed a long estrangement. It was a pragmatic step in engaging with India and the controversial and troubling politician who could well become the next prime minister after elections in May.

In 2005, the United States imposed a visa ban on Mr. Modi, who is the chief minister of the state of Gujarat, over questions about his role in the savage riots there in 2002 that left nearly 1,000 people dead, most of them part of the Muslim minority. Many Indians felt that Mr. Modi should have done more to stop the violence; some even said he was complicit.

Mr. Modi has denied any wrongdoing, and in 2012 a Supreme Court investigative team declined to bring charges, saying there wasn’t enough evidence. In December, a court in Gujarat drew a similar conclusion. The Obama administration this week said the visa status remains the same, but it seems likely that could change, especially if Mr. Modi becomes prime minister.

His rise to power is deeply troubling to many Indians, especially the country’s 138 million Muslims and its many other minorities. His strident Hindu nationalism and inability to tolerate dissent could inflame sectarian tensions that have subsided somewhat in the last decade. That would be destructive for India and the region.

Should he become prime minister, his ability to reverse a decline in economic growth, India’s greatest challenge, and to ensure stability would depend on his ability to represent, and defend, all the country’s people.

The meeting with Ms. Powell was part of a renewed American effort to reach out to politicians across India’s political spectrum. Such moves are long overdue. President Obama has not paid as much attention to India as President George W. Bush, a serious oversight given India’s central role as a democratic anchor in South Asia and its developing relationship with Japan.

Since 2008 when India and the United States completed a pathbreaking nuclear energy agreement, they have worked to develop closer commercial and strategic ties and now share almost $100 billion in annual trade. But the relationship is under serious strains, including a trade dispute over solar panels and a row over a diplomat who was charged with visa fraud and illegally underpaying her maid and left the United States in January.

It is in no one’s interest to let these tensions fester. India and the United States have much to cooperate on, including Mr. Obama’s efforts to strengthen America’s role in Asia and work with partners there to balance China’s rise and more assertive stance in the region without provoking conflict. In addition, India, like the United States, is deeply worried about a potential takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban once American troops leave and any potential spillover in nuclear-armed Pakistan.

Regardless of who succeeds Prime Minister Manmohan Singh this year, the United States and India have a lot of work to do to strengthen their partnership. Opening a door to a relationship with Mr. Modi is a necessary step.

Meet The New York Times’s Editorial Board »

[anmol]

Editorial from October 2013 :-

Narendra Modi’s Rise in India
by THE EDITORIAL BOARD, nytimes.com
October 26th 2013

In 2002, rioters in the western Indian state of Gujarat savagely killed nearly 1,000 people, most of whom were part of the Muslim minority. Now, barely a decade later, Narendra Modi, who was the chief minister of Gujarat at the time and still holds the office, is a leading candidate to become prime minister of India.

Mr. Modi, a star of India’s main opposition party, the Bharatiya Janata Party, would become prime minister if the party won enough seats in parliamentary elections next summer with support from its political allies. His rise to power is deeply troubling to many Indians, especially the country’s 138 million Muslims and its many other minorities. They worry he would exacerbate sectarian tensions that have subsided somewhat in the last decade.

Supporters of Mr. Modi argue that an investigation commissioned by India’s Supreme Court cleared him of wrongdoing in the riots. And they insist that Mr. Modi, who is widely admired by middle-class Indians for making Gujarat one of India’s fastest-growing states, can revive the economy, which has been weakened by a decade of mismanagement by the coalition government headed by the Indian National Congress Party.

There is no question that the Congress Party has failed to capitalize on the economic growth of recent years to invest in infrastructure, education and public institutions like the judiciary. And instead of trying to revive itself with new ideas and leaders, it is likely to be led in the coming election by Rahul Gandhi, the inexperienced scion of the Nehru-Gandhi family.

But Mr. Modi’s strident Hindu nationalism has fueled public outrage. When Reuters asked him earlier this year if he regretted the killings in 2002, he said, if “someone else is driving a car and we’re sitting behind, even then if a puppy comes under the wheel, will it be painful or not? Of course it is.” That incendiary response created a political uproar and demands for an apology.

Mr. Modi has shown no ability to work with opposition parties or tolerate dissent. And he has already alienated political partners; this summer, an important regional party broke off its 17-year alliance with the B.J.P. because it found Mr. Modi unacceptable.

His economic record in Gujarat is not entirely admirable, either. Muslims in Gujarat, for instance, were much more likely to be poor than Muslims in India as a whole in 2009 and 2010, according to a government report, though new data has shown a big improvement in the last two years.

India is a country with multiple religions, more than a dozen major languages and numerous ethnic groups and tribes. Mr. Modi cannot hope to lead it effectively if he inspires fear and antipathy among many of its people.

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

Correction: October 28, 2013

An earlier version of this editorial relied on a 2012 Indian government report on poverty rates, which included the rate for Muslims in Gujarat in 2009 and 2010. Newer data shows that poverty among that group has declined substantially in the last two years.

[JohnTitor]

Its pretty clear the NaMo will become the PM in 2014. I hope that NaMo will let the law take its own course and will not shield the kongis who deserve to go to jail. And all the fellow-travellers, radiamedia, ...etc also should not be shielded from the law. If NaMo can do that then that would be justice.

There is already pretty solid news that all kongis who expect to be jailed/punished severely in a Namo regime will move to countries which have no extradition treaty with India after the voting is complete. They will only return to india if by some miracle kongis win again. They are already in the process of packing off all their assets from india.

where did you hear this? Is there anything available online?

[krishnan]

seriously does this kind of news makes it to headlines ??? everything happens under the darkness and even if paidmedia knowns they will pretend nothing is happening

[sooraj]

Terrorists may attack Modi's rally in Muzaffarpur: IB tells Bihar police
http://www.rediff.com/news/report/terro ... 140215.htm

[sooraj]

Nitish Kumar suffers media envy, says unlike Modi, Lalu he doesn't look good enough to get coverage
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/niti ... 43393.html

[Singha]

>> a delegation of US Parliamentarians,led by Aaron Schock,will meet BJP leaders L K Advani,Rajnath Singh,Sushma Swaraj and Narendra Modi during their visit to the country between March 27 and April 6.

talk about being proactive in building bridges with hopefuls! are they even spending the same time in north and south block one doubts.

[Hari Seldon]

>> a delegation of US Parliamentarians

US parliamentarians? Wow, that's a new one...

Anyway, I'm apprehensive about US interest in 'engaging' any political players in India just before the polls. Anyone recall the flash meet between some US official and chiranjeevi suddenly around the time PRP was first announced? Just apprehensive, is all...

[Misra]

Kamalnath was involved in massacre of Sikhs in 1984 and has many pending cases outside of India.

one of the most corrupt politicians india has seen--mattresses filled with rupee notes early on, etc.

[Misra]

Guys I need help., I am collecting all links regarding visa denial to NaMo - however mentioning the real reason - the EJ'ism lobby.

I am working on somebody and I need as many links as possible. To start with here is one

http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/l ... z2tKAXne00

from 6/13/13: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWC6HiHh8vY

watch 1:27:45 onward

[anmol]

A new style of Indian campaign
by A.T., economist.com
February 10th 2014 1:23 PM

CAG is the name of one of the most respected institutions in Indian public life, beating out even the Supreme Court of late. Its initials stand for Comptroller and Auditor General and its job is to conduct non-partisan audits of the government. Under the leadership of Vinod Rai, who ran it until May 2013, it exposed a series of mammoth scams. When the CAG speaks, the public listens and crooked politicians take fright.

Now there is a new, somewhat sneaky CAG. Citizens for Accountable Governance is the name of an energetic group which first appeared last summer and has been growing much bigger and more voluble since the start of 2014. On the Indian internet, this CAG is an online shape-shifter. As Sankalp it wants to empower India’s women; as Samvaad, to fix the economic crisis in the countryside that has led to farmers committing suicide; Manthan was an initiative to bring young Indians into conversation about national politics; while the Indian Republic[/b] (which doesn’t have “CAG” in its URL) bills itself as “India’s largest not-for-profit news portal” and looks like an online newspaper. The sites all share slick graphics and pictures of the attractive young professionals who are getting involved. The only other thing these civic organisations have in common is a vagueness about their ultimate purpose.

But the CAG’s most visible activity over the next few months gives away the game, as do the back pages of its central website. On February 12th the organisers of “Chai pe Charcha” will be bringing Narendra Modi, the prime-ministerial candidate for the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), into a video-broadcast “discussion over tea” with voters in 1,000 locations. The CAG, its founders will admit in conversation (though not on any of these websites), is “the campaign support team” for Mr Modi’s campaign. They chose their name in a nod to Mr Rai’s service as the national auditor, which called attention to corruption during a time of Congress party-led government. Now they are a group of 66 employees—compensated volunteers, technically. On third-party websites, they say they are based in Mumbai, which makes them sound pan-Indian and pro-business. In fact their headquarters are in Gandhinagar, the capital of Gujarat state, where Mr Modi sits as chief minister.

The CAG gives a sideways view into a part of the Modi campaign; what they choose not to say about themselves is at least as interesting as what they do say. At first glance the Indian Republic[/b] looks like a neutral arbiter of the day’s news. As well as covering Indian politics, it has sections devoted to the rest of the world, and others for sport, tech and the lives of pop stars. Attractive links to its news articles run on the home-pages of Slate[/b], the Independent[/b], Time [/b]and other international clients served by Outbrain, a content-marketing firm. A lot of its articles about, say, the Sochi Olympics, are just cobbled together from the wire agencies (and not attributed). But the Indian Republic[/b]’s articles about Mr Modi, the Congress party or the insurgent Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) tend to be written in-house and signed. It might never have run a piece about the other CAG’s finding about corruption in Gujarat’s state-owned enterprises, but what it does run says a great deal about the Modi campaign’s hopes and anxieties. For example, after AAP did very well in the Delhi elections, the Indian Republic[/b] began highlighting the flaws of its leader, Arvind Kejriwal, with new gusto. When a committee convened by Raghuram Rajan, the new governor of India’s central bank, ranked Gujarat among the country’s less-developed states, the Indian Republic[/b] was apoplectic.

This has the effect of making the reader wonder what surreptitious messages might be built into the CAG’s campaign. The last time cadres of the BJP went round the country with donation boxes for a building project was when they were campaigning to build a Ram temple at Ayodhya, on the site of a 16th-century mosque that had been torn down by a Hindu mob in 1992. So it is striking that another CAG offshoot, the Statue of Unity movement, is going round collecting old iron implements from farms around the country. The idea is to erect a 182-metre statue of Sardar Patel, a Gujarati leader of the independence movement who was known as the Iron Man of India for his stern, no-roadblocks approach to forging a single nation after the partition from Pakistan. His would be the tallest statue in the world, twice the height of the Statue of Liberty, its backers say, built of concrete, clad in recycled iron and facing a gigantic and controversial dam that bears Patel’s name and brings the Narmada river to serve the cities of Gujarat. Mr Modi’s image flashes back and forth with Patel’s in the video.


As it happens Patel hated the Hindu nationalists of his day, but he has since been made a favourite icon of India’s extreme right.

Over tea, Siddharth Mazumdar explains that he and the like-minded group of friends who started CAG have no interest in the divisive tactics of the Hindu hard right. They approached Prashant Kishor, a chief strategist for Mr Modi, early last year, and CAG was born. Mr Mazumdar says he “wanted to see the nerve centre of a political operation” and to help India too. Well-spoken, discursive and idealistic about the mission of the Modi campaign, he does not come off as an ideologue. With a graduate degree from Columbia university in New York, while still in his 20s Mr Mazumdar set aside good job opportunities to hole up in sleepy Gandhinagar.

Mr Mazumdar has a head for wonkish policy debates, and he is inspired by Mr Modi’s ideas about liberalising the national economy, in particular by his Thatcherite slogan, “Government has no business being in business”. He and a colleague, who quit her practice as a lawyer for the duration of the campaign, call themselves “the children of liberalisation”, having grown up in post-1991 India and appreciating its economic dynamism. She thinks that by “removing roadblocks in Gujarat” Mr Modi has shown “how he might unleash potential” for the country as a whole. Both are excited about the sort of activism they have found with CAG, which bypasses the traditional parties’ youth wings. To get into politics as it was, they say, one always needed to have either a pile of cash or family connections. Their group, if they and their friends are any indication, is attracting young professionals who want to see hard work and merit make their mark. Mr Modi wants to empower India by getting it off the dole, they say; and he speaks for all Indians, not just the Hindu majority where he finds his base. Their BJP is a party of the centre-right.

But even here there is a whiff of something that goes unspoken. Mr Mazumdar is at work on a book about the ideas that make Mr Modi his man, ideas which connect the politician to the wisdom of the ancient Vedas, the Buddhist emperor Ashoka, and also famous Indian Muslims like Akbar, not to mention Margaret Thatcher. That sounds broad-minded enough, but then the working title, “Moditva”, carries the strong smell of Hindutva, a doctrine of Hindu supremacy that guides the civic movement that gave birth to the modern BJP. Given Mr Mazumdar’s lack of interest in the pro-Hindu, anti-Muslim politics that characterised the BJP’s approach to campaigns in the 1990s, this seems a curious choice. It is also strange that he regards European movements such as Golden Dawn in Greece and Marine Le Pen’s in France as examples of the good that frustrated young people can do when they organise. Those far-right movements have profited by crisis. And Mr Mazumdar scents opportunity in India’s current financial distress. “In a stressful period,” he says, “you have a good time for an alternative to appear”.

Mr Modi’s campaign wants to appeal to all sorts, as a national campaign must. Along with big business and the urbanising middle classes, that will include the right-wing Hindutva types, as well as the bright young professionals of the cities. The CAG wants mainly to reach the type who want to vote against the incumbent Congress government, which they see as sclerotic and inept, but feel torn between new AAP and Mr Modi’s BJP, which governed Gujarat during a series of massacres in 2002 in which at least a thousand people were killed, most of them Muslim. This must be in part why the CAG tries to avoid looking like anything in particular. Its operatives in Gandhinagar avoid disclosing their address. The group is listed as a Section 25 company, which entitles it to non-profit status, because, as the young lawyer puts it, “there is no traceable link between us and the party”.

A media strategy that makes use of subterfuge—or even the appearance of it—courts suspicion. Borrowing the name “CAG”, until now a trademark for fairness and probity, cannot help. Mr Mazumdar and his colleague seem earnest and forthright in person, and recoil from their association with the groups who want to raise the Ram temple in Ayodhya. They hope their message will reach a great many Indians of their own generation, including many who fear that a vote for Mr Modi would be a vote for an unappealing, covert agenda. Going up against such fears, their group might have an easier time if it were more open about its affiliations.

(Picture credit: Citizens for Accountable Governance)

[anmol]

Indian politics
by From the print, economist.com
February 15th 2014


IT WAS almost a Valentine’s day date. On February 13th America’s ambassador to India, Nancy Powell, visited Narendra Modi, the chief minister of Gujarat, at his home in Gandhinagar. He gave her roses. It got political classes gossiping. No more will diplomats isolate the divisive leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). America had been most outspoken in pinning on Mr Modi responsibility for sectarian riots in 2002 that killed over 1,000 people, mostly Muslims. In 2005 it rescinded his visa to travel to the United States. Western ambassadors long cold-shouldered the Hindu nationalist.

Officially, what has changed is that a court in December cleared Mr Modi of possibly the last legal challenge over the riots. America is now ready to engage him with talks on doing business in Gujarat. But what matters is national politics. The ruling Congress is a busted flush. A general election is due in May, and everything points to the BJP doing best. It makes sense to adjust to Mr Modi now, as the BJP's candidate to be prime minister. Envoys from Britain and the rest of Europe ended their unofficial boycott of him over a year ago.

Other long-term critics of Mr Modi have also been making accommodations. In the past few months a few prominent critics, such as the former editor of the Hindu [/b]newspaper and a columnist with a news magazine, were eased from their jobs. Journalists in some television newsrooms say that the wider corporate interests of their owners preclude strong attacks on the man who may soon be prime minister.

It is not clear whether similar logic explains why Penguin India, after four years of defending itself in civil and criminal cases, this week reportedly decided to pulp all copies of a controversial book about Hindu culture. “The Hindus”, by Wendy Doniger, an academic at Chicago University, had provoked Hindu nationalists in India and an increasingly angry and outspoken diaspora in America. They claimed her psychoanalytical approach was flawed and voyeuristic, and had somehow hurt the feelings of hundreds of millions.

Yet the book had earned decent reviews. The author herself blames Indian law for making religious offence a criminal rather than a civil matter. She also warns that the incident bodes ill for free speech in a “worsening” political climate. Too few politicians defend liberal values consistently, preferring to court the votes of supposedly offended members of a particular caste or religious or regional group. Those who campaigned against “The Hindus” now say they want other books by Ms Doniger withdrawn, and school textbooks rethought.

[svenkat]

anmolji,
e-con-omist is the worst rag when it comes to India.Why give space to the rubbish it spouts.
The article claims that the owners of chindu have other business interests by clubbing it with some other business house.Thats outageous notwithstanding the contempt we have for chindu.Its like criticising 'al-guardian' for its supposed business interests.

[gandharva]

[anmol]

anmolji,
e-con-omist is the worst rag when it comes to India.Why give space to the rubbish it spouts.
The article claims that the owners of chindu have other business interests by clubbing it with some other business house.Thats outageous notwithstanding the contempt we have for chindu.Its like criticising 'al-guardian' for its supposed business interests.

You are right, I am giving undue importance to their BS. BTW, even e-con-omist is having business interests (Pearson & Rothschilds business family).

In May 2013, Pearson announced a new organization structure in order to accelerate their push into digital learning, education services and emerging markets. The change also supports the decoupling of the Penguin consumer publishing business into a separate entity with Random House forming Penguin Random House. The new structure combines the separate education companies, Pearson International and Pearson North America under one Pearson company. Pearson will organize around three global lines of business – School, Higher Education and Professional. The Financial Times Group and Pearson English will form part of Pearson Professional.[5]

Pearson holds 47% in Penguin Random House, the world's largest consumer book publisher, and 50% stake in the Economist Group, the publishing group which specialises in international business.

[RoyG]

Kejriwal's anti-gaft campaign is going to start on the 23rd. Congress master plan is about to start. Color revolution is coming.

[vivek.rao]

Kejriwal's anti-gaft campaign is going to start on the 23rd. Congress master plan is about to start. Color revolution is coming.

They will do whatever they have to stop Modi

Why did BJP give them a chance to be on the same side as CONGis

[Hari Seldon]

zero-loss outdoing himself... must've missed the media spotlight perhaps...

>>India Today ‏@IndiaToday 55m
Modi should talk about his original ideas, not copy us: Sibal http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/modi ... 43717.html …

[gakakkad]

>> a delegation of US Parliamentarians,led by Aaron Schock,will meet BJP leaders L K Advani,Rajnath Singh,Sushma Swaraj and Narendra Modi during their visit to the country between March 27 and April 6.

talk about being proactive in building bridges with hopefuls! are they even spending the same time in north and south block one doubts.

[nitpicking]from when did US have a parliament ? [/nitpicking] anyway,I like aaron schock...he is young ,energetic ..has the right ideas ....I have met him once, at a forum of indian IMGs ...we had a chat about hr 1201 bill he was to introduce..that dealt with increasing residency slots in the US... I could not believe he was a house rep.. small young guy...I thought he was a resident doc or something before they introduced him..

[Victor]

Union Cabinet approves President's rule in Delhi

[Victor]

Kejriwal's anti-gaft campaign is going to start on the 23rd. Congress master plan is about to start. Color revolution is coming.

True. BJP needs to respond with rolling howitzer heavy barrage on the only plank these critters have--corruption--and make it vanish. That will leave them nanga on the steets, clothed only in topi, chappal and scarf. Some big names that have instant credibility on the street (their word is enough) need to be roped in and activated. Not sure if this is the right time though. Kiran Bedi with or without Anna, (preferably with but he is an unpredictable yo-yo) and Baba Ramdev are two that Kejri took a free ride on the backs of, Gen VK Singh who blew the whistle on corruption and commands major cred among ex-armed forces voters are top contenders. Hopefully people like Lata Manjeshkar, Big B and others will fall in also.

[KJo]

Guys I need help., I am collecting all links regarding visa denial to NaMo - however mentioning the real reason - the EJ'ism lobby.

I am working on somebody and I need as many links as possible. To start with here is one

http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/l ... z2tKAXne00

from 6/13/13: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWC6HiHh8vY

watch 1:27:45 onward

Disha, maybe you can turn this into a "BR Project" in it's own thread?

[RoyG]

Kejriwal's anti-gaft campaign is going to start on the 23rd. Congress master plan is about to start. Color revolution is coming.

True. BJP needs to respond with rolling howitzer heavy barrage on the only plank these critters have--corruption--and make it vanish. That will leave them nanga on the steets, clothed only in topi, chappal and scarf. Some big names that have instant credibility on the street (their word is enough) need to be roped in and activated. Not sure if this is the right time though. Kiran Bedi with or without Anna, (preferably with but he is an unpredictable yo-yo) and Baba Ramdev are two that Kejri took a free ride on the backs of, Gen VK Singh who blew the whistle on corruption and commands major cred among ex-armed forces voters are top contenders. Hopefully people like Lata Manjeshkar, Big B and others will fall in also.

Your suggestions could help, however I predicted earlier that the media will use this color revolution to black out Modi and all his supporters completely. Only option that we have is to mobilize our own forces and compete for the capital otherwise MMS resigns and Jan Lokpal will be used to target Modi and other NDA leaders. This is going to be a very tricky situation. We have to be prepared to go all the way. This is the demons last breath. Just look at the headlines...the media is completely on board with this plan. Already Modi has been reduced to 5-10% airtime.

[Manu]

Jethmalani is nearing 90. he is even older than loh purush I think.
Khanduri sir would be best appointed as roads & power minister if there is such a post. road construction has fallen into a hole. power is languishing due to lack of coal and gas. imo oil & petrol should remain with Namo himself. Amit shah can take home perhaps...that will automatically lead to self-exile of a lot of fair weather birds without even doing anything.

sushma swaraj as home minister ?

Arun shourie should also be given a special charge as "minister for truth and reconciliation in the arts" to cleanse all the congi funded and staffed cultural foundations , clean up history books, control the MSM professional dissidents and so on.

jaitley sir as external affairs min would be ok..he can debate and talk people to a standstill even on a off-day.

what portfolio does Arnab get ?

Jethmalani will be minister once again. His astrologer has predicted it.....

[muraliravi]

http://www.sunday-guardian.com/buzzword

The race for seats in Uttar Pradesh is gathering pace. BJP president Rajnath Singh, who is not confident of winning from his current seat Ghaziabad, has decided to shift to Lucknow. His son Pankaj is keen to contest from Chandausi, a Rajput dominated seat. However, Murli Manohar Joshi is likely to contest from his own Varanasi seat. Siddharth Nath Singh, the grandson of Lal Bahadur Shastri, is likely to contest from Phoolpur. Kalraj Mishra, who is presently MLA from Lucknow East, will be fielded from Kanpur and Kalyan Singh from Etah. Varun Gandhi will give up Pilibhit to contest from Sultanpur. The BJP wanted to field Rajya Sabha member Vinay Katiyar from Faizabad, but he wants the Lakhimpur Kheri seat. Narendra Modi is unlikely to contest from UP, but will stick to Gujarat. In the Congress, Behraich MP Kamal Kishore has been asked to shift to Bansgaon, the Dalit bastion once represented by Mahavir Prasad. Kishore has recommended the name of his wife for Behraich. Raj Babbar, who stares at defeat in his current Firozabad seat, is mulling to choose between Faridabad in Haryana and his old Fatehpur Sikri seat in Agra. Azharuddin wants to shift to a safe seat in West Bengal. Beni Prasad Verma wants to shift from Gonda to Kaiserganj. Sanjay Singh's wife Amita will contest from Sultanpur.

Grapevine is that BJP has shortlisted candidates for 30 seats in UP (they feel they will have very high hit rate in these 30).

Maneka Gandhi --- Pilibhit
Varun Gandhi --- Sultanpur (Sanjay Singh's wife is his opponent)
Hukum Singh ---- Kairana
Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh --- Gonda (See in the earlier para, a dog called beni prasad verma wants to shift from gonda, because he knows that Brij Singh will win quite handsomely here)
Lakshmikant Bajpai (UP BJP Chief) --- Meerut
Satyapal Singh (Mumbai Cop) --- Baghpat
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The below seats, i am just tabling from the above para

Pankaj Singh (Rajnath's Son) --- Chandausi
Rajnath Singh ---- Lucknow
Vinay Katiyar ---- Lakhmipur Kheri
Siddharth Nath Singh (LBS' grandson) ---- Phulpur
Murli Manohar Joshi --- Varanasi
Kalraj Mishra ---- Kanpur

The seats, i have labelled red are seats they will surely lose in my opinion due to horrible candidate selection (Maneka might just survive as she has won that seat hazaar times on good margins and so did varun in 2009. There were many reports that Varun Gandhi as an MP was a disaster in pilibhit (in fact we all know that he has been in WB for the last 1.5 years, just replacing him with his mom will not get bjp the seat, but who knows).

MMJ has been advised hazaar times that he will lose badly, but he still wants to satisfy his ego. Very well then get screwed and waste one seat also. Same with kalraj mishra. Ideally Modi should have contested Lucknow, Sanjay Mahana would have been the best choice for Kanpur, lakshmikant bajpai from varanasi (he will win from meerut also), and they should have given meerut to someone else.

Lucknow, Kanpur, Varanasi are among the 8 seats in UP where AAP will go full throttle (with other 5 being, Ghaziabad (rajnath is running away from there, becos he knows he will lose horribly), meerut, noida, agra, allahabad).

So of these 12, they will surely pull off victory in 5 (Meerut, Gonda, Kairana, Chandausi and Lakhmipur Kheri), I am doubtful about Phulpur, Baghpat, Pilibhit (She may scrape through) and Sultanpur (here may just pull it off). But the other 3 are sure lose (Lucknow, kanpur, varanasi).

So if Mom and Son win then they can make sure BJP gets at least 7/12 at a 60% success rate.

Let me know if anyone thinks I am way off on lucknow, kanpur, varanasi, baghpat and phulpur

Disclaimer: The 2nd set of 6 seats that i have posted are purely based on info from sunday guardian. I also have news that Sanjay Mahana will be given the ticket from kanpur in which case, they will romp home

[Hari Seldon]

^^Yup. Me too hearing different things about candidate names (see below). Will just have to wait for the list to come, IMO.



MMJ should be shunted to RS, along with fellow seniors LKA and honorary senior Sussma. NM should contest from Varanasi instead... will have a strong effect on the rest of purvanchal spilling over also into Bihar, IMO...

Or better yet, why not NM contest from Patna, instead, eh? Will ensure a crucial few extra % voteshare and seats in that critical state...

[Singha]

new chinese style vadodara bus station

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set ... 547&type=1

[muraliravi]

Some more seats

http://epaper.amarujala.com/svww_zoomar ... 25003..1/2

1. Gorakhpur - Yogi Adityanath
2. Bansgaon - Kamlesh Paswan
3. Azamgarh - Ramakant Yadav
4. Etah - Kalyan Singh
5. Muzzafarnagar - Sanjiv Baliyan
6. Agra - Ramshankar Katheriya
7. Aonla - Dharmendra Kashyap
8. Hathras - Ashok Pradhan

So with that, we have 20 seats where candidate names have been leaked. Of these 8, the ones bolded should be smooth sailing.

[muraliravi]

^^Yup. Me too hearing different things about candidate names (see below). Will just have to wait for the list to come, IMO.

MMJ should be shunted to RS, along with fellow seniors LKA and honorary senior Sussma. NM should contest from Varanasi instead... will have a strong effect on the rest of purvanchal spilling over also into Bihar, IMO...

Or better yet, why not NM contest from Patna, instead, eh? Will ensure a crucial few extra % voteshare and seats in that critical state...

Yes sir, Actually Varanasi is the best choice, he will effect in UP and Bihar since it is at the eastern end of the state. I still think, even if MMJ refuses to vacate, Modi should then go ahead and contest from Allahabad, or maybe Patna as you suggested. Him contesting from one of these 2 states will add a lot of flavour.

But you never know, maybe gujaratis will feel bad that once is he is trying to become PM, he is not even contesting from there. I am sure the subtle message going on in GJ to get 26/26 is to elect the 1st GJ PM. So it would not look very nice if he does not contest from there. If he contests from 2 seats, that again sends a bad message.

[Yagnasri]

Cross posting from AP thread. (There is a serious problem which may be created for future NDA rule and also a good oppetunity presenting itself. I love to see NM handle this well. Will show how good he is)

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In the meanwhile the down slide on for Telugu people is nearing completion.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/new ... 492996.cms

http://gulfnews.com/news/world/india/an ... -1.1291404.

http://www.mumbaimirror.com/news/india/ ... 479784.cms

The a part of TDP now going to be separatist party??? CBN may have serious problem as he failed to address the opposition to the division. If state is divided with BJP support then it is quite possible TDP leaders may take up separatist demand during elections as they have no face to show to public with CBN as their leader. His development slogan may not be listened as this division went beyond normal administrative one. Suspension of MPs and befor that beating them up in parliament in an organised assault is going to be a serious issue.

The evil politicos will do many thing. I fear this slide may become a long term one and unless Indic forces seriously think on this immediately we may have a long term problem here. Residual Mafia leaders will have to leave mafia and may take up these kind of demands as survival requirement. We already have similar parties in TN in south and now in another state which will have serious financial problems as revenue from Hyd will stop, jobs are not there, all industries, educational institutions etc lost to Telangana. Further serious insults made during T agitations will also shown repeatedly on Telugu Tvs to create further sense of hurt and humiliation. Our politicos are experts in this kind of evil things.

EJ forces fishing in troubled waters and looters like Jagan using these kinds of demands for their ends is also a danger.

Best way would be BJP immediately ensure suspension of MPs revoked. Mafia will not do it. If BJP fails at least in this then they also will have no face to show in 25 MP seats in decades to come. At least allowing MPs to some dramas in Parliament will cool things a bit.

Nuzividu town is famous for mangos. I hope it will remain so. Not as a separatist slogan birth place.
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