2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 07 Jul 2021 20:50

12 ministers who tendered their resignations today before the reshuffle.

Prakash javadekar, Minister of Information and Broadcasting

Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister for Law and Justice

Harsh Vardhan, Minister of Health and Family Welfare

Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, Minister of Human Resource Development

Harsh Vardhan, Minister of Health and Family Welfare

Santosh Gangwar, Minister of State with independent charge in the Ministry of Labour and Employment

Sadananda Gowda, Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers

Debasree Chaudhuri, Minister of State for Woman and Child Development
Sanjay Dhotre, Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology

Thawar Chand Gehlot, Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment

Babul Supriyo, Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change

Pratap Sarangi, Minister of State for Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

Rattan Lal Kataria, Minister of State for Jal Shakti

KL Dubey · Post by **KL Dubey** » 07 Jul 2021 23:05

IndiaTV is reading out all the portfolios.

Regarding the two "forum favorites"

Javadekar (I&B) and Prasad (Law)...they are replaced with Anurag Thakur and Kiren Rijiju respectively.

No big changes in the "core group"....except some of their extra portfolios being given to new entrants.

Other highlights (cabinet ministers only)...

Scindia gets civil aviation.

RK Singh gets Power and keeps Renewable Energy.

A "lateral entry" former babu Ashwini Vaishnav given important portfolios...railways, IT, electronics.

Bhupendra Yadav gets Labor.

Kishan Reddy gets cabinet rank...Culture/Tourism/Northeast Dev.

LJP "coup leader" Paras Paswan get cabinet rank. Clearly the goremint has recognized him as the "real" LJP and Chirag Paswan is not in the picture.

Bunch of MoS appointments....

Anupriya Patel (Apna Dal), Athawale, Rajeev Chandrasekhar get MoS appointments.

VK Singh stays.

KL Dubey · Post by **KL Dubey** » 07 Jul 2021 23:19

Overall an excellent restructuring. There is much good news there. Can't think of anything negative.

Kati · Post by **Kati** » 07 Jul 2021 23:36

Nisith Pramanik and John Barla - both from north Bengal have been inducted. Nisith has decimated TMC in the north, and John (or Jon) Barla has a good following among the tribals in tea gardens.
Dr. Subhash Sarkar (a staunch Sanghi) from the south/west central and Shantanu Thakur from South/South-east have been given berths.

I'm a bit disappointed because Smt. Debasree Chaudhuri has been dropped - may be she will be asked to focus more on organization in
Dinajpur area - her stronghold. Not sure what to make of Babul Supriyo's departure.

sanjaykumar · Post by **sanjaykumar** » 08 Jul 2021 01:28

^^^ The skin in the game concept of Taleb’s is something of a classic.

But it only applies to liberal societies. Or possibly lazy ones. Try diffusing kosher in Nazi Germany. Or halal in a society as envisioned by that jatka activist, Sikh fellow whose name I forget.
The latter makes some convincing economic arguments against the imposition of halal for all (all-halal hehehe) in India.

Jarita · Post by **Jarita** » 08 Jul 2021 02:12

Ambar wrote:Gadkari and Piyush Goyal are among a handful of ministers who perform, so it is imperative they continue in the cabinet and hold on to their current portfolios. Besides, Gadkari has a burning ambition to be the future PM (the man must have hired atleast a 1000 people to start youtube channels/instagram profiles to cover infra development) , and he has the backing of RSS so he will remain. I am very keen to see who will replace Harshavardhan . It will also be interesting to see what Amit Shah's plans are for future, he was always portrayed as the natural successor to Modi but he is not known to be close to the current RSS top brass, besides Shah's rise within the party and as a politician is coupled with Modi's rise, so after Modi steps down he may not have enough support within BJP. It is entirely possible that Shah will go back GJ at some point and aim for the CM seat.

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Gadkari needs a strong Environment Minister to counter him else there will be one disaster after another awaiting both us and the future generations. The construction mafia in India is running amok.

Sumeet · Post by **Sumeet** » 08 Jul 2021 03:57

Jarita wrote:
Ambar wrote:Gadkari and Piyush Goyal are among a handful of ministers who perform, so it is imperative they continue in the cabinet and hold on to their current portfolios. Besides, Gadkari has a burning ambition to be the future PM (the man must have hired atleast a 1000 people to start youtube channels/instagram profiles to cover infra development) , and he has the backing of RSS so he will remain. I am very keen to see who will replace Harshavardhan . It will also be interesting to see what Amit Shah's plans are for future, he was always portrayed as the natural successor to Modi but he is not known to be close to the current RSS top brass, besides Shah's rise within the party and as a politician is coupled with Modi's rise, so after Modi steps down he may not have enough support within BJP. It is entirely possible that Shah will go back GJ at some point and aim for the CM seat.
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Gadkari needs a strong Environment Minister to counter him else there will be one disaster after another awaiting both us and the future generations. The construction mafia in India is running amok.

So you mean we need Jayanthi Natarajan or Jayanthi Natarajan 2.0 ?

disha · Post by **disha** » 08 Jul 2021 05:01

Sumeet wrote:
Jarita wrote: ...
Gadkari needs a strong Environment Minister to counter him else there will be one disaster after another awaiting both us and the future generations. The construction mafia in India is running amok.
So you mean we need Jayanthi Natarajan or Jayanthi Natarajan 2.0 ?

Jarita'ji, is your statement coming based on facts or from personal bias? And Ambar'ji, do you know for fact that Amit Shah is not close to RSS vis-a-vis Gadkari and hence his future is ambiguous?

Let's take one at a time. Gadkari needs a string environment minister to counter him else there will be one disaster after another.

Here are the facts:

0. Environmentalists dyed in the wool of Jayanti's and Greta's are morons. They are neither for environment nor for humans. It is better to be a talibani inhuman then a Ma Greta Dumberg human who goes around as environmentalist.

1. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ind ... 863616.cms. Gadkari talks about replanting trees and sometimes as much as 10x and indicates money is not a problem. A road if necessary to be widened to cut down on accidents needs to be widened!

2. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cit ... 017873.cms

Note that Gadkari is pulling up NHAI babooze. On paper, they have plantation. Road minister is saying it is not good enough. Further in the details,

3. https://www.livemint.com/Politics/DK8Qz ... Ganga.html

Anyways, instead of going through TOILets, just read this appendix on NHAI hosted on NIC

[url[http://www.environmentclearance.nic.in/ ... Form1A.pdf[/url]

On how NHAI projects will be using C & D waste and recycled water.

Anyway, goal of NHAI is to construct roads for efficient transportation and reducing accidents. Efficient transportation *is* environment friendly. Reducing accidents is also *environment* friendly.

Ma Greta Dumbergs of Sweden will go around the world on lecturing and building resume. That is eco-colonialism. Sweden uses 20x energy per capita. Sweden's IKEA depletes Romanian old forests to make cheap throwaway furniture. However it is good conscience to lecture others. It is even better for propagating eco-colonialism and ensuring the 'Global South' do not advance the standard of living for their citizens.

Talking about Climate Change, countries like Sweden, Norway, Switzerland which are part of the Global North contribute 92% of the GHGs causing climate change. https://eos.org/articles/global-north-i ... -emissions. Here is the map of the Global North https://www.rgs.org/CMSPages/GetFile.as ... lang=en-GB

And here we are discussing foisting Ma Greta Dumbergs and Jayanti's on a dynamic minister who is passionate about efficient transportation and saving Indian lives.

Forum members have not been paying attention to the news. Amit Shah is Home Minister. That in parliamentary system is a signal that he is second to prime minister. Moving him to Deputy PM will be too soon.

And another portfolio is Minister of Cooperation. What is this? Well all cooperatives, including milk dairies, bank cooperatives, farmer cooperatives etc setting up of interstate cooperatives and maybe even intra-state cooperatives come under the portfolio of Minister of Cooperation. Keen minds will be aware how Pawar's control of Bank Cooperatives and Farmer cooperatives led to his power.

This is an Augean stable that needs to be cleaned up. Amit Shah is the perfect person for this.

disha · Post by **disha** » 08 Jul 2021 05:08

KL Dubey wrote:Overall an excellent restructuring. There is much good news there. Can't think of anything negative.

Sir you are not estimating the power of BRFites correctly! While the countdown on Rona-Dhona starts, I have a generic question.

In NaMo 2.0, did Modi purposely put some dummies in place so that the problems are studied properly and the right person for the job is picked up? Pandemic throwing a wrench in that process? Ministry of cooperation sounds like the elephant in the room which everyone is missing.

KL Dubey · Post by **KL Dubey** » 08 Jul 2021 07:28

^^What to do, it is like this onlee.

I feel amused when people think they know what minister X or Y has done or not done all these years, but NaMo just figured it out now. Miraculously, such people can form a reliable opinion looking at some media reports but NaMo is sleeping through all those monthly performance reviews that he himself instituted.

For example, Javadekar was discussed above. He did a very good job with both the environment ministry and the education ministry (e.g., notably the new education policy). Sometimes its just time for a change and refreshment. Doesn't mean he was inert. People seem to be pissed with him just because he didn't change NCERT history textbooks.

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 08 Jul 2021 08:40

Former Bureaucrat Ashwini Vaishnaw gets Railways, IT ministry

Ashvini Vaishnav: IIT Kanpur, Wharton, IAS batch of 1994. Education and experience are difficult to beat.

in the footsteps of jaishankar and hardeep puri.

let's hope that he delivers.

Aditya_V · Post by **Aditya_V** » 08 Jul 2021 08:50

KL Dubey wrote:^^What to do, it is like this onlee.

I feel amused when people think they know what minister X or Y has done or not done all these years, but NaMo just figured it out now. Miraculously, such people can form a reliable opinion looking at some media reports but NaMo is sleeping through all those monthly performance reviews that he himself instituted.

For example, Javadekar was discussed above. He did a very good job with both the environment ministry and the education ministry (e.g., notably the new education policy). Sometimes its just time for a change and refreshment. Doesn't mean he was inert. People seem to be pissed with him just because he didn't change NCERT history textbooks.

This happens when people watch too many Movies and serials, every complex problem is solved in series of dialogues and quick actions in these fantasy worlds. If someone has personally taken difficult tasks, seen the unseen problems involved, faced things going unexpectedly going wrong- one would not be soo judgemental, have short memories.

As I said before in my daily interactions, many Indians in the Indian society where I live are perfectionists when somebody else has to deliver.

venkat_kv · Post by **venkat_kv** » 08 Jul 2021 09:18

Cyrano wrote:Some of the online content I have come across is fantastic and delightful.

For example, this series (in a regional language like Telugu) on Gnanapith awardee Sri Viswanatha Sathyararayana's epic novel Veyi Padagalu, which has reached over 100,000 people (views). The quality of research, analysis and presentation of this youtuber Sri KiranPrabha is incredible. And there are surely many more gems out there...

If you know Telugu, enjoy thoroughly !

this channel does a lot more than just telugu people. It speaks on myraid topics like Jayalalita, recently I think was about the life of MGR, life of Karl Marx. Though most of the content is geared towards films and film personalities, the trivia in making films or relations between the film industry people, you will find some jems like Dr. Yellapragada Subba Rao (i was quite surprised to listen about his achievements which were done around the 1940's time this shows my lack of knowledge

and ofcourse the system we have of not knowing some towering personalities).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellapragada_Subbarow

The content is in telugu, wish he had CC's for people to follow on many topics that he covers in detail.

Vips · Post by **Vips** » 08 Jul 2021 10:28

Jarita wrote:
Ambar wrote:Gadkari and Piyush Goyal are among a handful of ministers who perform, so it is imperative they continue in the cabinet and hold on to their current portfolios. Besides, Gadkari has a burning ambition to be the future PM (the man must have hired atleast a 1000 people to start youtube channels/instagram profiles to cover infra development) , and he has the backing of RSS so he will remain. I am very keen to see who will replace Harshavardhan . It will also be interesting to see what Amit Shah's plans are for future, he was always portrayed as the natural successor to Modi but he is not known to be close to the current RSS top brass, besides Shah's rise within the party and as a politician is coupled with Modi's rise, so after Modi steps down he may not have enough support within BJP. It is entirely possible that Shah will go back GJ at some point and aim for the CM seat.
Gadkari needs a strong Environment Minister to counter him else there will be one disaster after another awaiting both us and the future generations. The construction mafia in India is running amok.

Nothing like the environment mafia to nullify development efforts. No thank you.

Screw environment protectionism and their and impractical agenda.

Those chutiyas wanted road construction in North East and Uttarakhand which is required for security reasons to be stopped and limited to single lane of not more then 7 feet. They even went to Supreme Court with "public interest" writ petition and Nitin Gadkari had to tell the court that movement of tanks and heavy trucks towing spares and supplies cannot be done on such narrow roads. For sure these are professional protestors, are getting paid by "NGOs" and are serving an anti-national agenda.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 08 Jul 2021 11:45

And another portfolio is Minister of Cooperation. What is this? Well all cooperatives, including milk dairies, bank cooperatives, farmer cooperatives etc setting up of interstate cooperatives and maybe even intra-state cooperatives come under the portfolio of Minister of Cooperation. Keen minds will be aware how Pawar's control of Bank Cooperatives and Farmer cooperatives led to his power.

After Farm Law reforms need to provide holistic rural economic development.
Cooperation was in Agricultural Ministry and quite moribund. Hardly any action documented on their website.

SRajesh · Post by **SRajesh** » 08 Jul 2021 12:14

^^^ Ramanaji
I wonder whether the time is short for 2024 'Endgame'
But per the reshuffle my expectations:
1. Food processing/cold storage/reducing wastage: much needed farm laws changes, dedicated freight corridors working. All that needs a forward thinking ministers in these areas.Can Tomarji/Raneji/Parasji deliver. The new Railway minister and Sonowalji might do their bit but can the real team deliver or PMO needs to guide with a firm hand. This along with AS role in Cooperation may change the dynamics in the rural hinterlands and wrest control from the Arthiyas/moneylenders/small co-operative societies and banks. Also potential for employment and stop urban migration??
2, Dont much about Yadavji and Dr V Kumarji but know what one can expect from Rejijuji so long pending Labour laws need overhauling!!
3. Even though Nirmalaji has not been moved but now that Goyalji is the commerce minister could hope for better trade negotiations and pacts!!! And together they can hopefully ferry the economy post COVID and PMO taking back seat maybe!!
4.Educational policy ?? maybe in the third cycle post 2024 win!

Prem Kumar · Post by **Prem Kumar** » 08 Jul 2021 12:30

Anurag Thakur gets I&B from Javdekar. Thakur was the BCCI wheeler-dealer. Not sure what to expect here, but he has a low bar to cross

Ashwini Vaishnaw has huge shoes to fill, thanks to Piyush Goyal's benchmark in Railways. His resume looks good - so hoping good things from him. Its a bit annoying that he is double-booked with IT Ministry. Given how critical this ministry is, it just shows a lack of focus/interest.

Piyush Goyal getting Textiles is great - we need to reclaim the #1 spot there in exports. Plus its a large employment generator.

Smriti Irani is relegated to WCD - I think its fair. Other than being a good orator/debator, pugilistically taking down Rahul and taking good care of Amethi, she did not shine in either Education or Textiles.

Dharmendra Pradhan is a "meh" choice for Education. But given the lack of focus of this Govt in Education (I mean specifically de-colonization), its not surprising. And to the best of my knowledge, he didn't do anything significant in the petroleum ministry either. So, not expecting anything great on this front. There are apparently a dozen posts of vice-chancellors in Universities & 1000s of teaching positions to be filled, per LiveMint. The least he can do is to not fill it with leftists

Yagnasri · Post by **Yagnasri** » 08 Jul 2021 13:19

Dharmendra Pradhan is one of the most underrated Ministers. He did quite well in the earlier ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas which was huge mess before 2014. As far as HRD Ministry concerned a lot will depend what NM wants to do. Skill Development is of course will be top priority anyway. Lot of VC and posts to be filled and JNU and scumbags to take care.

Prem Kumar · Post by **Prem Kumar** » 08 Jul 2021 13:46

Can you elaborate what Pradhan achieved in the Petroleum & Natural Gas areas? Genuine question

anmol · Post by **anmol** » 08 Jul 2021 14:34

Prem Kumar wrote:Can you elaborate what Pradhan achieved in the Petroleum & Natural Gas areas? Genuine question

Ujjwala Yojana

Yagnasri · Post by **Yagnasri** » 08 Jul 2021 16:21

Firstly the ministry was a mess with usual UPA activities with various power interests and lobbies fighting get the loot in 2014. Please check the names of the earlier ministers and where they are from. Since 2014 it was all cleared. As Anmolji said the gas supply for free to poor people managed very effectively and smoothly and ensure huge political dividends to BJP since then. Most importently the Minister is not making any useless woke statements like Harshavardhan and others and kept himself below the radar. It is widely believed that quality is very much liked by NM.

KL Dubey · Post by **KL Dubey** » 08 Jul 2021 21:20

Prem Kumar wrote:Dharmendra Pradhan is a "meh" choice for Education. But given the lack of focus of this Govt in Education (I mean specifically de-colonization), its not surprising. And to the best of my knowledge, he didn't do anything significant in the petroleum ministry either. So, not expecting anything great on this front. There are apparently a dozen posts of vice-chancellors in Universities & 1000s of teaching positions to be filled, per LiveMint. The least he can do is to not fill it with leftists

How do you manage to come up with these claims without any prior checking ? E.g, "DP did not do anything significant in petroleum"...saying "To best of my knowledge" is not a valid cover since it takes only two minutes to pull up information. Regarding DP, even wikipedia has a detailed description of his work:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharmendra_Pradhan

Now he is tasked with another important matter: implementing the New Education Policy 2020 which was led by Javadekar. The latter released the draft NEP in 2019...a very good achievement in 3 years.

"De-colonization" of the school system and curriculum is described in detail in the NEP, among many urgent needs. Javadekar decided not to willy-nilly enforce historical changes in the textbooks, rather he thought it should be done with a proper policy framework that the NEP 2020 provides. Now we will see how the whole policy (which is ambitious) is implemented/delivered.

The stakes are high, so please don't pass judgements without checking.

Here is the NEP, which is indeed revolutionary in many respects:
https://www.education.gov.in/sites/uplo ... lish_0.pdf

Here's a good critique article on the NEP:
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6537/36

It's behind a paywall for most users, but I'm quoting the concluding paragraph:

"There is nothing inevitable about low learning levels in Indian schools. Other developing countries, such as Vietnam, have been able to achieve substantially superior learning outcomes at very similar levels of per capita incomes. Research suggests that a key explanation is the greater productivity of Vietnam's schooling system, which focuses attention on ensuring that even the weakest students reach minimum standards of learning (15). The NEP provides an important opportunity to move Indian education from “sorting and selection” to “human development,” enabling every student to develop to their maximum potential. India, and the world, will be better off if this vision is realized in practice."

Jarita · Post by **Jarita** » 08 Jul 2021 21:27

Nothing like the environment mafia to nullify development efforts. No thank you.

Screw environment protectionism and their and impractical agenda.

Those chutiyas wanted road construction in North East and Uttarakhand which is required for security reasons to be stopped and limited to single lane of not more then 7 feet. They even went to Supreme Court with "public interest" writ petition and Nitin Gadkari had to tell the court that movement of tanks and heavy trucks towing spares and supplies cannot be done on such narrow roads. For sure these are professional protestors, are getting paid by "NGOs" and are serving an anti-national agenda.

Precisely why we need a strong level headed environment minister. One who can make the right trade-offs between defense, security (aka sterlite) and short and long term sustainable development. You neither need a hard head nor do you need a clearance minister like Javadekar.
Also - when people start calling anyone concerned about the environmental devastation in India, Greta whatever, it’s a non starter just the way a bhakt or gaumutra jibe is a non starter. There is no point wasting time from that point on.
One more point, sustainable development is not about planning trees and replacing them from point A to point B. It’s a lot more than that. It’s the water we drink, the air we breath, the stability of our land masses, bio diversity (which we all agree is a precious legacy of India). Growing eucalyptus trees as a replacement for destroying ancient forests is not environmentalism. I will delve into this more on another thread.

Cyrano · Post by **Cyrano** » 08 Jul 2021 22:41

Agree with you Jarita ji. This casual contempt for everything and everyone "environmental" is a very short sighted approach. It only leaves this important field for human (and all life) sustenance and well being to air headed leftists and vested interests who are already causing more harming than global warming.

Suraj · Post by **Suraj** » 08 Jul 2021 23:28

This is the politics thread. There's a separate thread - multiple ones I think - that focuses on development and environment. This is not the thread to make the argument.

However, those threads lack much focus. All conversation on environment is reactive. It's trying to stop something, and effectively at odds with something or the other. This approach to environmentalism is fundamental to the strong emotions it engenders. Further, it becomes simply a fight between two sides with money, and over long term the development side usually wins because they've more money and lawyers.

So here's a challenge:

Describe Indian Environmentalism from first principles as a concept that is synergistic with development, is not 'negative' in the sense of trying to stop something. The Japanese have a great design ethos around keeping the environment beautiful (ignoring the concrete heat island of downtown Tokyo, which I have suffered in midsummer along with all the locals).

The argument, the interaction all have to be cast in terms that enable synergy and the development of a modern Indian ethos towards environmentalism that is separate from the Euro Greenpeas jokers. There'll be a ready desire to 'take on developers' but restrain yourself from reactionary behavior. Instead define a stucture of how to accomplish this. At the very least it will touch many spheres, ranging from environmental friendly design in civil engineering education, to public policy support that ensures all public spaces have sufficient green cover.

The west has very little to offer India here. Their environmentalism is in any case appropriated eastern ethos, or simply the rest of harsh lessons learned (e.g. the city of Buffalo, New York had a thriving public transit system they ripped out to increase car lanes, and now the downtown has fallen apart). And yet, one can still do public transit wrong, e.g. The real story behind the demise of America's once-mighty streetcars.

So, take it to the right thread, focus brutally on a positive interaction approach instead of a reactionary one while ensuring there are actionable ideas and not 'lets bomb and rebuild the place from scratch' things, and see what discussion follows. Often, such attempts fail simply because the one pushing it cannot moderate themselves from being too idealistic.

KL Dubey · Post by **KL Dubey** » 09 Jul 2021 00:11

Some guidance from Da Man hisself:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ind ... 245066.cms

Might explain why too much of "harsh vardhan" (exultant comments) is not so good, and instead "mansukh" (mental peace/contentedness) is better.

Manish_Sharma · Post by **Manish_Sharma** » 09 Jul 2021 00:31

TWITTER:

https://twitter.com/CNNnews18/status/14 ... 05475?s=19

@CNNnews18 :

Twitter has told Centre in the Delhi HC, "If we are not in compliance with new IT Rules, the centre is free to initiate action. It does not need to use the court for that."

@AnvitSrivastava shares details with @SiddiquiMaha https://t.co/RDCB8lew0g

_________________________

https://twitter.com/brfharbans/status/1 ... 00097?s=19

@brfharbans:

Since they have admitted to breach, don't ban them! Just fine then 3.7 Billion USD! Allow them to breach again then fine them 4.1 Billion USD. Target to collect in the next 1 year should be 10 Billion USD. Do it. They will put 10 Goras in Delhi in a month

Fine them 1 Billion USD/ month for non compliance. Just watch. Make things expensive. RSP like a buffoon that he is, messed it up into a Profit making Private company thing vs an activist.

rsingh · Post by **rsingh** » 09 Jul 2021 00:36

Our leadership is famous on titar. To loose such an platform is suicidal. Desh Jay bhaad mein.

Amber G. · Post by **Amber G.** » 09 Jul 2021 01:06

Prem Kumar wrote:
Ashwini Vaishnaw has huge shoes to fill, thanks to Piyush Goyal's benchmark in Railways. His resume looks good - so hoping good things from him.

His resume includes: Gold Medal - BTech
MTech - IIT Kanpur
MBA - Wharton (University of Pennselynaia)
IAS - All India Rank 27
Collector - Balasore
VP - Siemens
MD - GE Transportation
Rajya Sabha - MP
(Very highly regarded among his colleagues in his alma mater, very impressive work done in *many* of his past assignments)
One of the first act - Narendra Modi presided over a strategic meeting called by him with of many IIT and IISc Directors - and PM himself sending tweets like this today
https://twitter.com/narendramodi/status ... 19874?s=20

Narendra Modi
@narendramodi
>>
Proud to see @IITKanpur become a hub for futuristic research and innovations in blockchain technologies, monitoring air quality, electronic fuel injections and more. The support being given to start-ups, upskilling of professionals will greatly benefit India’s Yuva Shakti.

Also to me important news is PM Himself will overseer DST ( DST will be reporting directly to PM) and looks like Technology, R&D is going to have quite a high priority)

rsingh · Post by **rsingh** » 09 Jul 2021 01:19

French version of Raphal controversy. SHERPA , a NGO filed the case. They tried to do same in 2019 but case was thrown out. Just for informatio any complaints by any organization is to be taken seriously That is the rule. If you accuse somebody of something you are asked to defend your accusation. Any way please read and make your mind.it is for the shake of clarity.You can change the language.

https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article ... _3234.html

sudarshan · Post by **sudarshan** » 09 Jul 2021 06:49

Jarita wrote: ...

Jarita ji, here's a thread you can use:

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7769&start=160

Yagnasri · Post by **Yagnasri** » 09 Jul 2021 07:06

INC ( and BIF) is playing a long game on Rafael deal allegations. That is why they are raking it up now in France. Aim is to brining it up in 2022 for UP elections.

KL Dubey · Post by **KL Dubey** » 09 Jul 2021 09:52

Amber G. wrote:
Prem Kumar wrote:
Ashwini Vaishnaw has huge shoes to fill, thanks to Piyush Goyal's benchmark in Railways. His resume looks good - so hoping good things from him.

Resume seems well suited...but so was the resume of people like Raghuram Rajan, Manmohan Singh, etc.

Let us see how Vaishnav delivers. I think he will have a good chance, not so much because of the resume but since he understands babudom and goremint setup well.

You can bring highly degreed and experienced corporate CEOs into such a job and they may fail utterly because managing a goremint dept is very different.

Also to me important news is PM Himself will overseer DST ( DST will be reporting directly to PM) and looks like Technology, R&D is going to have quite a high priority)

That is indeed good news.

Vayutuvan · Post by **Vayutuvan** » 09 Jul 2021 10:39

Yagnasri wrote:INC ( and BIF) is playing a long game on Rafael deal allegations. That is why they are raking it up now in France. Aim is to brining it up in 2022 for UP elections.

the issue doesn't resonate with the common folks. if anything, most will be proud of PM Modi and GoI to have armed Indian defense forces well ( or so one hopes.)

Kati · Post by **Kati** » 09 Jul 2021 12:07

Need some feedback on the southern front....
What's the implications of YS Sharmila floating her new party YSRTP in Telengana? How is it going to impact TRS and BJP?

Yagnasri · Post by **Yagnasri** » 09 Jul 2021 14:36

Just tying to get a EJ gang up in Telangana with EJ gang up. Tribal and others economically weaker sections. Plus EJ gangs of YSR still has some good name of "welfare activities" of YSR of old time. Plus some districts like Adilabad etc which are mainly tribal are infiltrated with EJs and that infiltration will now increase.

Mail aim is conversion and by conversion create a power center.

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 09 Jul 2021 15:09

there is always bound to be some learned hizzonners to be found in this vast and "democratic" country of ours who will base their rulings on social "value" and political predeliction based on ideology and dogma.

we permit the use the generous freedom of our democracy, and the gora tweaked Indian constitution to sink your own boat.

now the possibility of having the dilli high court and the KER high court rulings at odds with each other will pose the woke question.

we excel in creating constitutional confusions

and that is why terrorists in India die comfortably in multispecialty hospitals with the tax payer footing the bill.

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SRajesh · Post by **SRajesh** » 09 Jul 2021 15:31

^^^With all the collegium system Chetakji, we get all sorts.
We get Krishna Iyer and Markandya Katju and in between all sorts of flotsam and jetsam that the Monsoon will bring ashore!!

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 09 Jul 2021 16:53

powerful to powerless in one fell swoop

looks like the surgical strike was bang on target

well done

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 09 Jul 2021 17:08

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Almost a third of India’s 1,500-plus — 497 operational urban cooperative banks and 31 district central cooperative banks are in Maharashtra, with total deposits of Rs 2.93 lakh crore.

A large number of these banks are controlled by leaders from one single regional party in MAH.

Helped them control the politics, power, patronage, pani, and parivaari promotion.

- First RBI brought cooperative banks under its purview

- Next MP, MLAs were barred to be Directors in cooperative banks

- And now Motabhai has become Minister of Cooperatives.

The deck is stacked and they are holding all the aces. It is a winning hand and to finesse this may be difficult.

the strategy fadnavis sketched out on a napkin is now being carved in stone. No wonder the sainiks are also subdued.

Aap Chronology Samajhiye.

Co-operative Banks are main source of Black Money. Politicians are hiding money in these banks

the farm laws broke the back of the congis, khalistani jats, and the commie money collection machinery via the APMC route, this RBI strike has neutered the second channel of parallel economy. More will follow in the days to come.

dakait and the BIF shaheenbagh gang have been given the supari to thwart the Modi govt.

Let's see how things unfold.

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