Statewide and National runup to 2014 General elections

fanne · Post by **fanne** » 25 Mar 2014 01:17

Jaswant effect, BJP still wins Barmer. I am sorry for the treatment meted out to him, but hey, we have a bigger fight at hand, lets concentrate there.

muraliravi · Post by **muraliravi** » 25 Mar 2014 01:18

fanne wrote:Jaswant effect, BJP still wins Barmer. I am sorry for the treatment meted out to him, but hey, we have a bigger fight at hand, lets concentrate there.

Why sorry sir, why cant he fight again from darjeeling, isn't he an MP from there? Why is he running away??

KJo · Post by **KJo** » 25 Mar 2014 01:21

OMG

The elections begin on Apr 7,
2 weeks from today!!!

We will soon know what state we on BRF will be in. Euphoric in a Mort-like O state, or in Long Term Meltdown Mode.

gandharva · Post by **gandharva** » 25 Mar 2014 01:21

Sanjay wrote:Question to all those who might know - how will Jaswant's tantrum and departure affect the BJP's electoral prospects ?

The media is having a field day of course but nobody seemed to pay any mind to Uma Bharti who said that it was Jaswant Singh who got her expelled for indiscipline.

See the glee on her face.

http://ibnlive.in.com/videos/459991/jas ... harti.html

Meanwhile, JS had already started making sorties(in his hallucinations) to West as External Affair Minister. Obviously he is upset with reality hitting him.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 25 Mar 2014 01:25

Muppalla wrote:Bringing Amarinder Singh against AJ made it a tough fight. If AJ wins he will become stronger too. SS will win but will also be cut down post poll.

SBajwa or harbans, Isn't Amarinder Singh out of his element in Amritsar? Its not like its Patiala. Isn't Amritsar the location of the Ranjit Singh's supporters?

fanne · Post by **fanne** » 25 Mar 2014 01:27

He suffers from the same thing as some other BJP neta - No time for small things like taking care of your constituency but involve in big things like deciding Jupiter trajectory. So what to do onlee

muraliravi · Post by **muraliravi** » 25 Mar 2014 02:04

fanne wrote:He suffers from the same thing as some other BJP neta - No time for small things like taking care of your constituency but involve in big things like deciding Jupiter trajectory. So what to do onlee

Namo and the new bunch should set an example. In that way I am glad that he has chosen Varanasi, India's holiest city, but also among the dirtiest. He needs to ensure that Varanasi returns to its true glory. Planned, clean neat and holy city.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 25 Mar 2014 02:46

HT pontificates:

NDA allaince in TN will be game changer

NDA alliance in Tamil Nadu can change the game

Hindustan Times
New Delhi, March 24, 2014

Creating a “new political history” in Tamil Nadu as BJP president Rajnath Singh put it last Thursday while unveiling a new NDA coalition might be to overstate the case. But nevertheless, it is a significant achievement for the saffron party. Unable to reach a pre-poll alliance with its erstwhile ally, the AIADMK — notwithstanding the bonhomie between chief minister J Jayalalithaa and the BJP’s PM candidate, Narendra Modi — the BJP has brought together five regional parties on the same platform.

What the BJP has achieved through this coalition is unique and commendable. It is unique because for more than four decades Tamil Nadu has seen bipolar politics between the main two Dravidian parties — the DMK and the AIADMK. Other parties, including the Congress, have been relegated to the margins.

The NDA alliance in Tamil Nadu — including Vijayakanth’s DMDK, Vaiko’s MDMK and Ramadoss’ PMK — has the potential to challenge this two-party dominance.

This is commendable because the BJP has virtually no presence in the state. In 2009, the BJP did not get a single one of the 39 seats and today it is spearheading the third political option in the state. Compare this to the Congress, which in 2009 won eight seats while in an alliance with the DMK, but today finds itself alone with no alliance partner.

That said, the BJP’s alliance comes with many built-in limitations. In the event of the BJP requiring the support of either the AIADMK or the DMK to form a government at the Centre and given the bitter differences among the regional parties, it is to be seen how a Vijayakanth-led DMDK and a Jayalalithaa-led AIADMK can be accommodated on the same side.

A contradiction in this coalition is the coming together of the DMDK and the PMK as both parties have been at loggerheads. The absence of PMK founder S Ramadoss from Thursday’s function has also created a lot of speculation. But, to quote Otto von Bismarck, “Politics is the art of the possible…” and in the past we have seen unexpected twists and turns during government formations.

A lot can happen between now and April 24 when the state goes to polls and even after the results are announced on May 16. Nevertheless, it would be safe to say that the BJP has made the right moves by extending its alliance in the South and thereby getting closer to its target ‘Mission 272+’. These developments, if nothing else, will impart the colour and dynamism that will make elections in the state all the more interesting.

Muraliravi, Fair conclusion? What isolated the INC in TN?

Yayavar · Post by **Yayavar** » 25 Mar 2014 02:52

muraliravi wrote:
fanne wrote:He suffers from the same thing as some other BJP neta - No time for small things like taking care of your constituency but involve in big things like deciding Jupiter trajectory. So what to do onlee
Namo and the new bunch should set an example. In that way I am glad that he has chosen Varanasi, India's holiest city, but also among the dirtiest. He needs to ensure that Varanasi returns to its true glory. Planned, clean neat and holy city.

that is true and I hope so too. Varanasi was a mix of experience - peaceful in BHU area and mostly chaotic and dirty elsewhere. The same malaise grips a lot of holy places in India.

fanne · Post by **fanne** » 25 Mar 2014 02:55

INC is a toxic waste. I think overall, whoever is going with them will pay for cong follies as well. In my opinion, Lalu made a bad move, and DMK a smart move by ditching con.

RajeshA · Post by **RajeshA** » 25 Mar 2014 03:07

Published on Mar 25, 2014
By Samudra Gupta Kashyap
Five Bodo outfits to support BJP: Indian Express

Guwahati: In a major boost to the BJP, five outfits belonging to the Bodo community, including the All Bodo Students’ Union (ABSU), announced their support for the saffron party in the Lok Sabha elections.

The BJP had earlier said they would support former Rajya Sabha member Urkhaw Gwra Brahma — a candidate backed by the ABSU and four other organisations — in the Kokrajhar constituency. With the latest development, the BJP can now expect to get a sizeable chunk of Bodo votes in other constituencies like Barpeta, Guwahati, Mangaldoi, Tezpur and Lakhimpur.

The five outfits — ABSU, Bodo People’s Progressive Front (BPPF), United People’s Democratic Front, People’s Joint Action Committee for Bodoland Movement and NDFB (Progressive) — have asked their members in Tezpur and Mangaldoi constituencies to work for the victory of BJP candidates Ramen Deka and R P Sharma respectively.

In 2009, the BJP had immensely benefited from the support of ABSU and BPPF, with its candidate Ramen Deka’s victory being largely attributed to the Bodo outfits’ support. The five outfits said a majority of the Bodo people have lost faith in the Bodo People’s Front (BPF), an ally of the ruling Congress party, because of its “misrule”.

BPF nominates minister for Kokrajhar seat

The Bodo People’s Front (BPF) on Monday named Chandan Brahma as its candidate for the Kokrajhar Lok Sabha seat in place of its four time MP Sansuma Khungur Bwswmuthiary. Brahma is the lone BPF minister in the Tarun Gogoi government in Assam and holds the transport and tourism portfolios. The replacement of Bwswmuthiary by Brahma came in the wake of senior BPF leader and legislator Pramila Rani Brahma demanding that she be either named a candidate for Kokrajhar Lok Sabha seat or made a minister in the Gogoi government.

Gus · Post by **Gus** » 25 Mar 2014 03:33

ramana wrote: What isolated the INC in TN?

congress is an easy scapegoat for LTTE's fall and the accompanying massacre of civilian SL tamils. once that narrative was established, it was easy for everybody to gang upon congress. hence the isolation.

barring major screwups by bjp and i can think of the cauvery issue with karnataka bjp, i predict that bjp will occupy the space of congress from now on when it comes to MP elections.

any growth from there to state legislature is in the hands of local state leaders...

Shanmukh · Post by **Shanmukh** » 25 Mar 2014 03:34

RajeshA wrote:Published on Mar 25, 2014
By Samudra Gupta Kashyap
Five Bodo outfits to support BJP: Indian Express

Guwahati: In a major boost to the BJP, five outfits belonging to the Bodo community, including the All Bodo Students’ Union (ABSU), announced their support for the saffron party in the Lok Sabha elections.

The BJP had earlier said they would support former Rajya Sabha member Urkhaw Gwra Brahma — a candidate backed by the ABSU and four other organisations — in the Kokrajhar constituency. With the latest development, the BJP can now expect to get a sizeable chunk of Bodo votes in other constituencies like Barpeta, Guwahati, Mangaldoi, Tezpur and Lakhimpur.

The five outfits — ABSU, Bodo People’s Progressive Front (BPPF), United People’s Democratic Front, People’s Joint Action Committee for Bodoland Movement and NDFB (Progressive) — have asked their members in Tezpur and Mangaldoi constituencies to work for the victory of BJP candidates Ramen Deka and R P Sharma respectively.

This is HUGE. ABSU can turn the tide in favour of the BJP in Mangaldoi. Suddenly Ramen Deka's re-election bid looks very possible. Even in Tezpur, Ram Prasad Sharma's campaign has received a huge boost. As huge as all this is, the BPF (Cong. ally contesting Kokrajhar) is still very powerful and needs a hard push to defeat, but with the present BJP wave, disgust with the Congoons of Gogoi's government, and the match fixing between the Congress and the AUDF, U G Brahma might just topple the big bad BPF in Kokrajhar. Does anyone know where Sabda Ram Rabha is? He used to be in AGP (party secretary, IIRC), but if BJP can get the support of the Rabhas in Kokrajhar, BPF no longer looks invincible.

SBajwa · Post by **SBajwa** » 25 Mar 2014 03:36

by Ramana
SBajwa or harbans, Isn't Amarinder Singh out of his element in Amritsar? Its not like its Patiala. Isn't Amritsar the location of the Ranjit Singh's supporters?

He is out in Amritsar! Amarinder Singh is also a Sidhu Jatt but is not a celebrity like Navjot Singh Sidhu who has universal appeal due to his Cricket and TV shows.

Amritsar people have mostly voted for the locals (Raghunandan Lal Bhatia during Rajiv Gandhi's time and Partap Singh Qairon earlier both Congress)., or Navjot Singh Sidhu.

Dr. Laxmi kanta Chawla (resident of Amritsar and a minister in current Punjab Government switched from Health Minister to Social Welfare) was a good prospect against Amarinder Singh but I have no clue why Arun Jaitley? Arun Jaitly is not a Punjabi neither Sikh and has never lived in Amritsar (Banking totally on Modi's appeal) . Amritsar is as Holy for Sikhs as Kashi for Hindus or Mecca for Muslims., thus Amarinder could score points over Jaitly in rural area., this is a setup by Partap Singh Bajwa (current Congress Punjab chief) to eliminate Amarinder from politics., but BJP bowled a Doosra by putting Jaitly up. Now it could be doable by Amarinder or not very hard to tell.

In Jalandhar Current MP Mohinder Singh Kaypee can easily be defeated by Manoranjan Kalia (MLA and also a current Cabinet Minister in Punjab government).

Chandigarh BJP unit has some issues with Kirron Kher (Internal fights) which Kher needs to solve in less than a week., it will be a close fight against Gul Panag. Kirron Kher and Anupam Kher both can and should be able to handle Gul Panag.

Vinod Khanna from Gurdaspur can win against Partap Singh Bajwa he lost by about 8,000 votes in 2009. 48% vs 47.10%.

These are the current MPs from Punjab
1. Amritsar -- Navjot Singh Sidhu -- BJP (should be able to retain his seat but not sure with Jaitly)
2. Anandpur Sahib -- Ravneet Kaur -- INC
3. Bathinda -- Harsimrat Kaur -- SAD .
4. Faridkot -- Paramjit Kaur -- SAD.
5. Fatehgarh Sahib - Sukhdev Singh - INC
6. Ferozepur -- Sher Singh -- SAD
7. Gurdaspur -- Partap Singh Bajwa -- INC
8. Hoshiarpur -- Santosh Chowdhary -- INC -- BJP has put up a new candidate a local Vijay Sampla (good move)
9. Jalandhar -- Mohinder Singh Kaypee -- INC
10. Khadoor Sahab -- Rattan Singh Ajnala -- SAD
11. Ludhiana -- Manish Tiwari -- INC
12. Patiala -- Preneet Kaur -- INC
13. Sangrur - Vijay Inder Singla -- INC

So!! most of the Hindu Majority areas voted to Congress (Hoshiarpur, Ludhiana, Sangrur, Jalandhar) while Sikh majority areas were divided between Congress and SAD (Patiala, Fatehgarh Sahib, Gurdaspur)

BJP - SAD can pull this off! Modi needs at least 5+ rallies in Punjab especially in the Hindu Majority towns of Hoshiarpur, Ludhiana, Sangrur, Jalandhar, Amritsar.

disha · Post by **disha** » 25 Mar 2014 04:11

The promise and the peril

http://www.dailypioneer.com/columnists/ ... again.html

COLUMNISTS
INFLUX OF NETAS TO BJP HAS BEGUN AGAIN
Sunday, 23 March 2014 | Swapan Dasgupta | in Usual Suspects

Vidya Charan Shukla, who died last summer, was one of the most hated figures of the Emergency. He was entrusted with the responsibility of regulating the flow of news through rigorous censorship and he carried out Indira Gandhi’s command with effective ruthlessness. I didn’t know Shukla during his halcyon days, when he also acquired a reputation for being a bit of a lad. Arun Nehru introduced us during the early days of the Jan Morcha, which subsequently morphed into the Janata Dal. What immediately struck me about Shukla was that he was always immaculately turned out. Indeed, I have met no other person who wore a dhoti so elegantly.

Unfortunately, his overpowering sartorial grace wasn’t good enough to obliterate the past. To my generation, Shukla and the Emergency were inseparable. This may explain my disgust when I found him sharing the dais with LK Advani at an election rally in 2004. Shukla, for those with short memories, contested the 2004 poll from Mahasamund as a BJP candidate. He lost and shortly after left the BJP to make his way back to the Congress.

Personal note: My hatred for emergency perpetrators runs personal and deep. I actually celebrated Shukla losing. Thankfully the fears of second emergency coming from CongIs were unfounded.

From now., I do not think CongIs can declare emergency now or in future.
I was reminded of Shukla while observing the steady stream of Congress worthies switching sides effortlessly and proclaiming their undying faith in Narendra Modi. Apart from the usual galaxy of film-stars and other performers who have developed an irresistible urge to enter politics — just look at the candidate list of both the BJP and Trinamool Congress in West Bengal — the new converts include hardened politicians like Rao Inderjit Singh, Purandeswari, Sonaram Chowdhury, Jagadambika Pal, Satpal Maharaj and the habitually fickle such as Jai Narain Nishad and Brij Bhushan Singh. And I am not even including the ex-babus.

Many of them have been ‘adjusted’-a wonderfully evocative expression to denote amorality-and others given assurances about the future. Actually, the BJP’s record of keeping pre-election promises is rather good. In 2004, despite the defeat, the party accommodated at least four high-profile new entrants into the Rajya Sabha where their total contribution to the revival of the BJP was an enormous zero. However, within the political class, the BJP has a better reputation of being especially accommodative towards those who have earlier drunk from a secular cup. Whether this stems from a genuine desire to broaden the party’s social reach or is a function of Hindutva ‘dhimmitude’ is for social psychologists to ponder. In narrow political terms, however, there is no doubt that a steady stream of in-bound traffic does much to boost morale and demoralise the opposition. More important, in the context of the Congress (and AAP) bid to suggest that India will suffer a bout of communal indigestion if Narendra Modi is voted to power, the newcomers help expose the secular-communal divide for what it really is: Intellectual self-abuse. Ironically, it also helps break down the spurious perception that the BJP is a rigid ideological party. The commitment to a particular stream of thought may have defined the party at one stage of its evolution but political power invariably results in the dissolution of inherited certitudes.

Unwittingly, new entrants have helped the BJP’s unquestioned passage from Hindu nationalism to Hindu republicanism. Under Modi, the BJP’s evolution as a right-of-centre party with a focus on governance is likely to be more pronounced. This would have happened in any case if the party had not unexpectedly lost the 2004 poll and been overwhelmed by a leadership crisis subsequently. The likelihood of a Modi victory in 2014 has revived a process that was abruptly left incomplete ten years ago. The movement from the margins to the Centre inevitably involves the accumulation of diverse social forces and, predictably, some garbage. In 1991, the first occasion the BJP started attracting talent from outside the RSS fraternity, there was an overweight of retired bureaucrats and military officers among the new entrants.

They included the likes of Lt-Gen Jacob, Lt-Gen KP Candeth, Brajesh Mishra, SC Dixit and BP Singhal. What is further interesting that most of these individuals didn’t desert the party after 1991 and, indeed, played a role in the process that led to a BJP-led Government at the Centre. The willingness of the BJP to mop up the remnants of the Janata Dal also played an important role in the larger social enrichment of the party. At least two facets of the present BJP-its hold over the middle classes and its significant presence among OBC voters-have their origin in the open-door approach of the 1990s.

By contrast, those who latched on to the BJP in 2004 in anticipation of another term for Vajpayee turned out to be birds of prey. Most of the umpteen film-stars and other celebrities quietly moved out of the party’s orbit once it was clear that the Congress was back in the saddle. They left behind a trail of resentment in the party, particularly among the old faithful who had stood by it loyally through days good and bad. This may have been a reason why the involvement of the BJP’s traditional supporters in the 2004 campaign was so perfunctory.

At the same time, the rapid desertion of the newcomers after the May 2004 defeat created a mental block in the party against newcomers, a block that overlooked the earlier experience. From 2004 till the anointment of Modi in September 2013, the BJP was deprived of new blood. Today, once again the BJP is witnessing a problem of plenty. Carefully handled, the process can devastate the Congress permanently while extending the BJP’s social reach. Ineptly managed, it could turn BJP into a party of rank opportunists.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 25 Mar 2014 04:20

The ten years between 2004 and 2014 were the LKA doldrum days where he gallavanted with all kinds of contortions like Jinnah and dragged the BJP down too. The reluctance to put him to pasture is the bane of BJP. He also had a spell on other non-performers like Jaswant Singh.

disha · Post by **disha** » 25 Mar 2014 04:21

SBajwa wrote:
Chandigarh BJP unit has some issues with Kirron Kher (Internal fights) which Kher needs to solve in less than a week., it will be a close fight against Gul Panag. Kirron Kher and Anupam Kher both can and should be able to handle Gul Panag.

Kirron Kher is considered as an outsider and she has a fair chance if the BJP rebels behave. The election is now for Kirron Kher to lose!

Even though IBTL puts AAP's Gul Panag as a winner, IMO she has already lost the election. Her shock value is fast wearing off and in fact by starting a negative campaign on age, she has also lost respect. She proved what Kirron said about her (and Gul Panag needs to stop taking too many selfie's - she is in love with herself!!)

Check this out [as usual Sagarika Ghose/CNNIBN has twisted what Kirron Kher said]

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/kirron-khers ... 3-249.html

disha · Post by **disha** » 25 Mar 2014 04:28

ramana wrote:The ten years between 2004 and 2014 were the LKA doldrum days where he gallavanted with all kinds of contortions like Jinnah and dragged the BJP down too. The reluctance to put him to pasture is the bane of BJP. He also had a spell on other non-performers like Jaswant Singh.

At the same time, giving him a Sitaram Kesri treatment would have been disgraceful. If LKA had gone the Kesri way, then what is the difference between the Aurangazebs, Nehru-Mainos and Bharatiyas?

LKA has two options, retire with grace into sunset or find himself irrelevant. He does have a third and a better option IMHO, actually work hard and inspire the next-next generation to reach a different peak.

Shanmukh · Post by **Shanmukh** » 25 Mar 2014 05:56

Folks, I put together a short article on the BJP chances in Haryana. Feel free to tear my analysis apart.

http://anamikabharatiya.wordpress.com/2 ... ond-draft/

Muppalla · Post by **Muppalla** » 25 Mar 2014 08:35

nageshks wrote:Folks, I put together a short article on the BJP chances in Haryana. Feel free to tear my analysis apart.

http://anamikabharatiya.wordpress.com/2 ... ond-draft/

Excellent analysis. Let us see what muraliravi will say

. We need a dose of his pessimism too though you did not leave any room for that.

Kati · Post by **Kati** » 25 Mar 2014 09:19

Someone please bring this matter to BJP karyakartas' attention, especially naMo's inner circle.

Some grave situation brewing in West Bengal, and the NaMo wave will be wasted if the whimsical party state prez has his way.

Just received the following mail:
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1) The BJP State president has sent a wrong signal by having only one lady
candidate in the MP list that too placed her away from her roots and area
of work. Debosree Chaudhuri belongs to Balurghat Lok Sabha and has done a lot of work there. She knows the pulse of the place. She has been given
Burdwan-Durgapur constituency where she was recently appointed observer.

2) Balurghat MP constituency has been given to Dr.B.P.RoyChowdhury who is
a person from Malda and would have preferred Malda.

3) George Baker, a christian by caste has been given Howrah constituency
where no such voters are there. Prof Ashim Ghosh (Ex State President) had
nurtured the place and as son of the soil expected the nomination. Not only
a good orator and Party's GS Samik Bhattacharya should have been given as
he is also son of the soil. If none of them are liked by the State President, then Shri Chandan Mitra should have been given as he was born and partly brought up there.

4) Chandan Mitra has been put in Hooghly which has a large section of
Christian following due to Bandel Church and places like Chandanngore
(French Colonized there), Chinsurah (Dutch colonized there). Here George
Baker would have been a better choice.

5) Contai ( Kanthi ) Lok sabha the candidate is Kamalendu Pahari. District president Tapan Kar (a drunkard and well known low class illiterate man
with one qualification of being a favourite of Rahul Sinha, State President)
has taken money to give him ticket which he has shared with the State President. Mr. Pahari is a well known corrupt man and has joined the party few months back and till date has not been able to expand his Party base. He has no eligibility to be an MP candidate of BJP in this Modi wave.
Local and eminent candidate Prof Amalesh Mishra ( President of East
Midnapore media association) would have been far better. In fact last time
in 2009 he had been the candidate. Otherwise any outside candidate would
have been preferred. East Midnapore is always very important to Bengal
politics as they vote for change and are very aggressive. (Contai falls
within this district)

6) Behrampore MP constituency given to an unknown senior leader from
Kolkata. Though there was no prospect as that is the base of Congress' Adhir
Chowdhury some good candidate would have at least increased the vote share.

7) The State President has chosen North Kolkata MP Constituency. He has no
prospects there. Knowingly he chose as he would have Burrabazaar area within
this where he could mint money in the name of Modi from businessmen and our
3 BJP Councillors. He should have stood from some North Bengal seat
supported by the GNLF so that he could win. His political failure is the
greatest disadvantage we have in BJP West Bengal.

In Barrackpore he has allotted IPS R K Handa.Where as one Muslim leader
had joined from there with 5000 people in BJP. This person having base in
Barrackpore is being given Ghatal Lok Sabha, Midnapore. RK Handa could have
been given elsewhere.

9) Midnapore MP constituency has been given to almost an immobile State
Vice President Prabhakar Tiwari from Kolkata. There was a son of the soil, affluent, businessman who donated his house to South Kolkata BJP near
Mamata Banerjee's house in Kolkata called Mr. Sagar Chaudhuri or any other
candidate approved by local leaders.

10) The Jhargram MP constituency (ST) has been given to a non resident and
ineligible person who stays in Memari.

11) Asansol MP constituency Babul Supriyo (Music composers) have been given
depriving an ART of Living candidate. The candidate is not aware of the local problems and people are scared that they may not reach out to him as and when required like other celebrities.

12) Babul Supriyo would have been better who would have revelled at his
celebrity Status in Burdwan -Durgapur.

13) Tamluk MP constituency was nurtured by the 2009 candidate Rajyashree
Chaudhuri for the past 5 years. She carried out Welfare programmes and
political movements there with a good support base. All knew she would be
the candidate as no one stood near her in comparison. All Karyakarthas
mentally accepted her as their candidate.

The State President called her in the BJP office and said few weeks ago he
cannot give the seat of Tamluk and offered Kanthi or any other seat. Rajyashree declined the offer and insisted on Tamluk seat. The State President said to cover Minority quota Tamluk was chosen for State vice President Badshah Alam. Rajyashree said that since Badshah has a hotel in Digha why does not he fight from Kanthi MP constituency? The State president said, Badshah doesn't want it. Rajyashree said, "so a Hindu lady has to bow to a Muslim person and give away the cream of 5 years of her toil to him?"

The state president was adamant much to the disheartening of the Karyakartas. Finally Badashah is the candidate from Tamluk which has the strategic Nandigram, Haldia Port and Kolaghat Power Station within the area.

His (Badshash Alam) picture came out in the 365 daily newspaper saying he had attempted to murder Mamata Banerjee in 1990. The picture is being made into posters by TMC and BJP is being accused of being anti women as such a woman hitting man has been declared candidate.

Badshah has become vulnerable to any form of arrest if anyone files an attempt to murder case against him based on this picture. Before proof and trial starts election would be over and Badsha's nomination would be cancelled with the manipulation so that TMC candidate has walkover due to no BJP candidate.

Today and yesterday again it has come out in Chobbisghanta TV channel, Pratidin, Anandabazaar Patrika, Bartaman took out the news that Badshah has visited TMC leader and MP, former union minister Sisir Adhikary.

Rumours are on that he has taken money. The morale of the karykartas have
turned down and they are extremely shocked as they are convinced State
president would never remove Badshah's name due to a financial obligation
towards TMC .

Attached all news clippings that came out on Badshah one a day before (7th
March,2014) he was declared a candidate (8th March 2014, International
Women's day).

If not anyone at least change Tamluk candidate as the present one is a
traitor to the party. He is spoiling it with the help of drunkard District
President (Purba Medinipur) and State President Rahul Sinha. Karyakartas
are feeling helpless. They feel they have lost the game of a good result
from Modi wave and my consistent welfare work. Would be glad to take up
the responsibility with my one time experience.
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niran · Post by **niran** » 25 Mar 2014 09:23

nageshks wrote:Lalmuni Chaubey quits BJP.

http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_dis ... _id=224860

How much repercussions will be there for Bihar, and NaMo in Varanasi?

his contesting as an independent ironically will be good for BJP, all sabotage points identifed and shut
currently no one can do anything in Varanasi, as maulana Mullaravi says Mahadev has already willed NaMo
Lalmuni chaubey does have some clout in and around Sasaram too, there we have Meira Kumar LS speaker and daughter
of Jugjeevanram he can make this difficult seat more difficult, fikar not already Ramvilas paswan has sent in his maharathi
to sasaram, one way or the other Meira Kumar this time will have fight real and it gonna be down and dirty.

me have had a gastirc polyps removed and praise be to Mahadev it was just a polyps, by sunday will at Varanasi by Monday will take charge of
logistic of my assigned zone, will provide inputs from ground.

archan · Post by **archan** » 25 Mar 2014 10:04

^ Suphanallah! good luck!

svenkat · Post by **svenkat** » 25 Mar 2014 13:04

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/electioneering-style-a-page-from-the-past-in-tamil-nadus-deep-south/article5827458.ece

aakkala perunkudi makkaley ungaludaya ponnana vaakkukalai…’ Such typical words of forced endearment, voiced by a strained and exhausted soul blaring out from a loudspeaker atop a slowly moving black-yellow, unwashed Ambassador taxi raising dust would usually herald the arrival of elections in our Kanyakumari villages.

Children of all age groups, unmindful of the thick smoke and sound from the generator, would run alongside the vehicle; thrust their hands into the vehicle and plead, “Annay rendu notice kudu (brother, give us a few election notices)”. The man holding a microphone covered with his soiled handkerchief would throw away a few pamphlets, forcing the children to turn away from the car, stop and pick them up scattered all over the streets.

Entire villages divided on political lines, schoolchildren included, remained loyal to the parties of their choice. Every one will assemble at a small thatched shed— kaariyalayam —temporarily erected on either side of the streets and decorated with party flags and wall posters of leaders and party candidates.

Normally in the evenings, local leaders in charge of election would arrive to distribute money—a maximum of Rs. 50 per booth—for election expenditure. The parties’ respective local unit secretary would take party cadre and children to a hotel for a few dosas, generously soaked in coconut chutney and a rasa vada to be washed down with a hot cup of tea. It was a moment of great joy as the hotel owner would not allow in children under normal circumstances as “eating out is the first evil a man would acquire”.Old Hindu values.Seems incredible that the hotel owner was discouraging his own business because of hindu inhibitions about eating outside

Sometimes, food would be prepared in the booth itself: a well-boiled tapioca root, peppered with chilli and coriander powder ground into a paste by adding coconut oil and sukku kaapi (ginger coffee). The menu would be different in rival camps— wheat uppuma and sukku kaapi or paruppu (dal) vada and tea. The appetising aroma of a masaal vad' was enough to even tempt party-hopping, but such defections rarely happened.

Normally, periodic radio broadcasts heard out from battery-powered transistors kept party men abreast of daily news and developments. This Correspondent vividly remembers how in those days the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) men listened with rapt attention to the slightly-hoarse voice of DMK leader M. Karunanidhi talking about his mentor, C. N. Annadurai, and describing him as, “Singa Tamil nadaiyum singara thendral nadayium thannakathey konda pooman (our tender leader whose Tamil speech was as majestic as a lion and as gracious as gentle breeze)”.

On the other hand, the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) cadre assumed as if they were in a public meeting and clapped rapturously when they heard over the radio M.G. Ramachandran uttering his trademark words, “Yen raththathin raththamaana udan pirappukalay (you are my dear blood-relatives)”.

Congressmen, with an air of haughtiness, listened to Indira Gandhi’s speech in a language beyond their comprehension. They would know the content of her speech only after reading the next day’s local newspaper.

Independents, like well-known Gandhian Poomedai Ramaiya, would go from village to village on bicycle armed with a small table, chair and a petromax light and pontificate through a megaphone.

Songs specially composed for the occasion often filled the air during poll campaigns. The AIADMK camp called upon women to decorate their house—“Vaasal engum erattai ialai kolam idungal”—with the symbol of ‘two leaves’. But Congressmen always played patriotic songs from the veteran thespian Sivaji Ganesan’s films.

I hope people from North India realise Congress is not the evil they think it is.Not supporting Shriman buddhu,but the Congress did reach out to all sections and engaged itself in nation building,in OUR DIVERSE NATION.Cant helping noting this,when people are enjoying the great crowds for PCs campaigning.

Comer · Post by **Comer** » 25 Mar 2014 13:43

^^ nice read. The support and residual votes may be due to TN used to have decent leaders(maybe till Karuppiah Moopanar?)

Aditya_V · Post by **Aditya_V** » 25 Mar 2014 13:52

svenkat wrote:
I hope people from North India realise Congress is not the evil they think it is.Not supporting Shriman buddhu,but the Congress did reach out to all sections and engaged itself in nation building,in OUR DIVERSE NATION.Cant helping noting this,when people are enjoying the great crowds for PCs campaigning.

Sorry, many people from South India like me with various facts to back think INC is evil, why geneeralise this to North India.

You can have your reasons to support INC, but why try to give an impressions Anti-INC is North India???

Even in the article, see how the INC rather than developing economy and giving the parents ability to earn money was deliberately keeping them in a state where the children are kept as beggars by them?

Sanku · Post by **Sanku** » 25 Mar 2014 14:03

Aditya_V wrote:
svenkat wrote:
I hope people from North India realise Congress is not the evil they think it is.Not supporting Shriman buddhu,but the Congress did reach out to all sections and engaged itself in nation building,in OUR DIVERSE NATION.Cant helping noting this,when people are enjoying the great crowds for PCs campaigning.
Sorry, many people from South India like me if various facts to back think INC is evil, why geneeralise this to North India.

Errr you do realize that this is talking about 30 years ago.

30 years ago, it was the SAME scene in North India.

Time that the few remaining South Indians in congress camp also realize that TODAY congress is pure evil.

Manu · Post by **Manu** » 25 Mar 2014 14:15

ramana wrote:
Muppalla wrote:Bringing Amarinder Singh against AJ made it a tough fight. If AJ wins he will become stronger too. SS will win but will also be cut down post poll.

SBajwa or harbans, Isn't Amarinder Singh out of his element in Amritsar? Its not like its Patiala. Isn't Amritsar the location of the Ranjit Singh's supporters?

Hi Ramana,

Although you haven't asked me, my take is Congress dirty tricks department has made this a communal election after Navjot Sidhu was denied a ticket and a Khatri was given Amritsar.

Ironically, Ambika Soni (and not Ravneet Singh Bittu) is going to contest from Anandpur Sahib.

Captain Sahib did not want to contest, Sonia had to arm twist him. A. Patel still provides funds for Punjab Congress, so can't mess with her.

This is the 30th Year of Operation Bluestar, BTW.

It all depends on Badal's influence with Shiromani Gurdwara Parbhandak Committee to throw weight behind a Delhi walla (who claims his Nankas is from Amrtisar) - and the common man's dislike (Hindu and Sikh alike) for the Badal Clan.

For what it's worth, I personally like Raja Sahib a lot, a real gentleman, compared to the goondagardi of Badals and their nikamma son-in-law - Majithia.

Also, it looks like his wife (Preneet Kaur, aided by Sukh Sarkaria) will win from Patiala despite winning 3 times. BJP needs a serious rethink in Punjab.

AJ has not fought a real election in many, many years.

kapilrdave · Post by **kapilrdave** » 25 Mar 2014 14:20

RamaY wrote:
SwamyG wrote:So Modi comes all the way down to KA, but then skips KL, AP (united) and TN. It would be nice to tour at least 2 of these 3 states. Is he giving up on TN or AP? Or is he counting on alliances to do the magic in these states? Interesting times.
Kerala is in Phase 3: 10/4
Karnataka in Phase 5: 17/4
TN in phase 6: 24/4
AP in phase 7 & 8: 30/4, 7/5

I realize that I'm late in this but... welcome back sir!

Chandrasekhar · Post by **Chandrasekhar** » 25 Mar 2014 14:20

Muslims of Bihar for tactical voting

Sanku · Post by **Sanku** » 25 Mar 2014 14:29

Manu wrote: AJ has not fought a real election in many, many years.

AJ fights nearly every real election that BJP fights. The face or the candidate and who is fighting elections are two very different things.

Also I really dont get "Punjab is sick of the Badals" -- I mean they just won the election, didnt they ?

Manu · Post by **Manu** » 25 Mar 2014 14:32

I am talking of people who live in Punjab, Badals won't win an Assembly Election a 3rd time (unless Congress disintegrates), I 400% assure you.

Being a behind the scenes strategist and actively fighting the battle from the front are two different things, I assure you. AJ has his work cut out for him, NM will have to campaign for him.

Karan M · Post by **Karan M** » 25 Mar 2014 14:35

Chandrasekhar wrote:Muslims of Bihar for tactical voting

They do this, always put the perceived interests of their community over those of other Indians, irrespective of national interests or what other groups think, and then complain & whine that they are not treated equitably or regarded as the same as their fellow Indians. I wonder whether they even understand the terms "irony" and "hypocrisy". It would be one thing if they voted per individual choice, but no, its community first. Even at a time, when the nation is in a crisis. Such things are beyond them. A shame.

member_20317 · Post by **member_20317** » 25 Mar 2014 14:39

kapilrdave wrote:
RamaY wrote: Kerala is in Phase 3: 10/4
Karnataka in Phase 5: 17/4
TN in phase 6: 24/4
AP in phase 7 & 8: 30/4, 7/5
I realize that I'm late in this but... welcome back sir!

Welcome back RamaY ji.

Looking forward to your posts.

niran · Post by **niran** » 25 Mar 2014 14:49

Muslims of Bihar as voters can be divided into above 35 & below 35 years of age those below 35 further into
madarsa educated and regular schooling and no education those with regular schools and low or no education
are making informed decisions for them money is topmost, this comes through employment which comes through development above 35s are hopeless madarsa educated have small minority who uses their heads rest
as hopeless as the above 35s.

RajeshA · Post by **RajeshA** » 25 Mar 2014 14:53

ravi_g wrote:
RamaY wrote: Kerala is in Phase 3: 10/4
Karnataka in Phase 5: 17/4
TN in phase 6: 24/4
AP in phase 7 & 8: 30/4, 7/5
kapilrdave wrote:
I realize that I'm late in this but... welcome back sir!
Welcome back RamaY ji.

Looking forward to your posts.

Welcome back RamaY ji. Hope you had fun working undercover as secular786 doing twitter Hajj!

Atri · Post by **Atri** » 25 Mar 2014 14:58

RamaY wrote: Kerala is in Phase 3: 10/4
Karnataka in Phase 5: 17/4
TN in phase 6: 24/4
AP in phase 7 & 8: 30/4, 7/5

bhelcum back, saar..

Karan M · Post by **Karan M** » 25 Mar 2014 15:12

niran wrote:Muslims of Bihar as voters can be divided into above 35 & below 35 years of age those below 35 further into
madarsa educated and regular schooling and no education those with regular schools and low or no education
are making informed decisions for them money is topmost, this comes through employment which comes through development above 35s are hopeless madarsa educated have small minority who uses their heads rest
as hopeless as the above 35s.

not just bihar no sir. everywhere its the same thing, average indian muslim doesn't seem to be able to rise beyond communal rhetoric, for whatever reasons & its much the same with other self declared minority leaders/thekedaars. i find it constantly amusing how they (along with our media's moral secular brigade) tag each and every hindu/majority perception as being communal, whilst being thoroughly communal themselves, and behaving like "others" when it comes to anything that the majority believes in.

so listening to the diktats of the deoband is ok and behaving per that is ok, or even justifying sharia or constantly quoting "koran says this, hadith says this" - the number of IMs i have run into, who do this are staggering.

yet, its the RSS/hindus/brahmins/banias etc the caste shaste stuff they quote as their "understanding" of other communities, which is almost completely racist & communal, but that's ok.

any hindu org is communal whereas apparently all the mughals/muslim leaders who engaged in mass rapine and slaughter of non muslims - oh, lets name our kids after them. there is a collective black hole in the pysche of the indian muslim community, wherein they refuse to acknowledge the truth & behave as if playing the politics of victimhood will advance them. such dishonesty with the self will only accentuate their own descent into irrelevance. whilst individuals will advance, the mass will never be able to integrate with the mainstream and it will be their own fault.

Sanku · Post by **Sanku** » 25 Mar 2014 15:18

Manu wrote:I am talking of people who live in Punjab, Badals won't win an Assembly Election a 3rd time (unless Congress disintegrates), I 400% assure you.

Well Manu ji; I heard exactly the same before the last election, including on BRF. Badal's won.

Being a behind the scenes strategist and actively fighting the battle from the front are two different things, I assure you. AJ has his work cut out for him, NM will have to campaign for him.

Being the face/candidate and fighting from front are two different things again. AJ has been doing detailed election management, including arraigning for and campaigning, outreach to karyakartas and voter demographic study et al.

The only thing he has not done is use is "personal credentials" as candidate. That personal candidate appeal is only one small part of puzzle.

RajeshA · Post by **RajeshA** » 25 Mar 2014 15:35

Published on Mar 25, 2014
Sadhu Yadav to contest against Rabri from Saran: PTI

RJD President Lalu Prasad's brother-in-law Anirudh Prasad alias Sadhu Yadav on Tuesday announced that he would contest Lok Sabha election from Saran as an Independent against his sister Rabri Devi.

"I will fight Saran Lok Sabha election as an Independent," Yadav told PTI.

Asked the reason behind the decision to fight poll against sister, Yadav who yielded considerable influence during previous RJD regime, said "chunav ke samay janata me khulasa karege (I will reveal everything in front of public during election)."

When queried if it was not a surprising decision to have political battle within the family, Yadav said "siyashat me sab chalta hai (in politics its a common feature)."

The announcement of Sadhu Yadav to enter into fray from Saran could spell trouble for Rabri Devi who is in the fray from the seat to hold the seat from where her husband Lalu Prasad entered into electoral politics winning Parliamentary election for the first time in 1977 and where he was disqualified recently after conviction in a fodder scam case.

Rabri Devi is already facing stiff challenge from senior BJP leader Rajiv Pratap Rudy on the seat that would go to poll in the fifth phase on May 7.

Sadhu Yadav, the controversial brother-in-law of Lalu Prasad, called the shot during RJD rule in Bihar for 15 years from 1990 to 2005. He was considered a strength behind Prasad during the period.

He, however, fell out with Prasad later on and was removed from the party during 2009 Parliamentary election. Yadav had unsuccessfully fought that election as Congress candidate from Bettiah.

Congress also removed him recently after he met Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi at Ahmedabad.

NaMo uses another arrow from his quiver, collected over time. No better man to cut the votes of Rabri Devi in Saran LS seat than her own brother Sadhu Yadav.

Rajiv Pratap Rudy would have it much easier.

At 5forty3.in

Dr Praveen Patil wrote:Saran: Rajeev Pratap Rudy has once again accepted the challenge of taking on Lalu Prasad Yadav in his home turf, where this time Yadav’s wife and former CM Rabri Devi is contesting on the RJD ticket. Rudy had lost in 2009 by about 50k votes but had given Lalu sleepless nights. This time the situation has changed a lot as there is a Modi wave in the state and the OBC votes (at least the non-Yadav ones) are consolidating behind BJP. Chapra, Sonepur, Garkha and Amnour assembly segments would be crucial for Rudy as he has to take leads in all of these. As of today, Chapra and Sonepur seem to be solidly behind BJP, so Rabri Devi might find the going a lot tougher than her husband last time. Hats off to Rajeev Pratap Rudy, one of those rare leaders of BJP’s permanently Delhi based, TV studio-hopping gang, who doesn’t look for a “safe seat” and is ready for a tough battle.