Modi 3.0 - Bharat

[Zynda]

Modi is definitely one of the best PMs we have had in a long time. After a long time, feel like a leader whose heart beats for the nation rather than self. Having said that, there are several areas where he has not shown the strategic long-game vision required by a great leader. Defense is one of those domain. I wonder what would have been the current state if Parrikar Manohar was still around.

Rajnath Singh seems like a DefMin who is good for signing deals & giving speeches. I don't see the kind of pro-activeness or a long-term vision from him. We're at a time when we would need a technocrat as a DefMin instead of a career politician. Ashwini Vaishnav is a technocrat minister. I believe he is an engineer from an elite institution (perhaps IIT...didn't look up) and he acts like one. If one hears his talks on Railways & Semi-conductor sector, it is clear he knows what he is talking about. We need a minister like him who can call the BS from Armed forces. Apparently Parrikar sir did the same when reviewing the specs of FMBT...he told IA that these specs are straight out of a marvel comic.

I gonna make statements for which I cannot provide proof but based on what my gut feels & limited experiences. I feel like Rajnath Singh is a compromise politician. The armed forces probably did not want Parrikar 2.0. They wanted a minister who probably don't understand defense matters a lot (the babus who give inputs to Minister can be easily bought and/or manipulated) and who probably don't rock the boat violently. Big tickets can continued to be imported while limited number of indigenous products can be inducted and rest can be put on endless trials.

I am hoping behind the scenes, there are a lot of activity for greater indigenisation, identification of long-term strategic goals for Bharat from a defense & civilizational perspective.

[ernest]

Ashwini Vaishnav is a technocrat minister. I believe he is an engineer from an elite institution (perhaps IIT...didn't look up) and he acts like one. If one hears his talks on Railways & Semi-conductor sector, it is clear he knows what he is talking about. We need a minister like him who can call the BS from Armed forces. Apparently Parrikar sir did the same when reviewing the specs of FMBT...he told IA that these specs are straight out of a marvel comic.

Apparently tech savvy ministers are not easy to find for the current govt. Otherwise, Vaishnaw Ji wouldn't be handling two (at least) serious ministries.
Other thing being that the big ministries (finance, defence, home) go to political senior/heavyweights.

IMO, best would be to get RKS Bhaduria sir to serve as the Min of State for Defence, and he can focus on technical aspects, while DefMin focuses on personnel, organization, funding, etc. His advice to the Defmin will counteract other voices within MoD that are still in the old mindset. Our best chance at reviving Kaveri dev/production.

[hemant_sai]

It is very high time that Shri. Rajnath Singh ji handover the charge of defence ministry to someone in the same league of Shri Ashwini Vaishnav, Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar.

[chetak]

https://indianexpress.com/article/india ... r-9742916/

President announces governors for 5 states: Kerala’s Arif Mohammed Khan reassigned to Bihar, Ajay Kumar Bhalla to take charge of Manipur



December 25

In a significant reshuffle, President Droupadi Murmu Tuesday appointed two new governors and reassigned three others, reorganising the leadership in five states.

Ajay Kumar Bhalla, a seasoned administrator, has been appointed as the new Governor of Manipur, replacing Anusuiya Uikey. Bhalla takes charge amid escalating violence and a deepening ethnic conflict in the state. Over a year since the ethnic strife began in May 2023, the conflict remains unresolved, leaving governance in disarray.

Another key appointment is Arif Mohammed Khan, the governor of Kerala, who has been reassigned to Bihar.

Other key appointments include Hari Babu Kambhampati, the Governor of Mizoram, who has been transferred to Odisha, and General (Dr.) Vijay Kumar Singh, a decorated retired officer, who will now serve as the Governor of Mizoram. Meanwhile, Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar, the Governor of Bihar, has been reassigned to Kerala.

[arshyam]

Modi is definitely one of the best PMs we have had in a long time. After a long time, feel like a leader whose heart beats for the nation rather than self. Having said that, there are several areas where he has not shown the strategic long-game vision required by a great leader. Defense is one of those domain. I wonder what would have been the current state if Parrikar Manohar was still around.

Rajnath Singh seems like a DefMin who is good for signing deals & giving speeches. I don't see the kind of pro-activeness or a long-term vision from him. We're at a time when we would need a technocrat as a DefMin instead of a career politician.

Pushing through the CDS (sure, it was not him alone, his predecssors Smt NS and Sri MP also had done a lot of work), theatre-command re-organization don't count? Just the time it's taking to get everyone on-board shows how difficult it is to get the defense ministry to pull together. Theatre commands might look just like making our forces work jointly and develop newer tactics, not to mention resembling western force structures, but the core is logistics. It provides a path for unifying logistics and supply chains in the long run, cutting down on a lot of wastage. The worst example of that is the split of the Apache orders between Army and the Air Force, those wouldn't happen in a good setup, which is what I believe we are heading towards - the CDS secretariat has an overall view on procurement and can question egregious purchases (remember the CATOBAR EMALS carrier dream of the Navy?), while the empire building will need to happen at the theatre level, not force level. This would automatically get geared toward joint utilization of an asset, not just maintaining ownership and the associated cost of that (training, maintenance, upgradation, etc.). Is that's not a strategic goal in itself?

Same goes for indigenization and domestic orders - the positive indigenization list is another initiative to force the issue. Yes, there were issues with implementation, and the fact that the forces used the emergency clause (which any good policy should have to cater to unforseen circumstances) to simply import is a reflection on them, not the defense minister. If anything, it shows how strong the import lobby is, and how much work needs to be done to counter them. Despite all this, we have placed repeat orders for the Tejas, have a clear path for the Mk-2 and AMCA, invested heavily in AD capabilities (Akash, S-400, etc.), progressing on the nuclear submarine front while enhancing the surface fleet, ordered more Arjun tanks, Zorawar being developed for the mountains, etc. Yes, more can be done, such as going ahead with an indigenous SSK program, acquiring artillery from domestic sources (Dhanush, Kalyani guns), etc. No arguments there, but I feel there has been good progress. That's just the procurement side of things. What about logistics, again? The unpredecedented investment into our Himalayan border roads, multiple road and rail tunnels to ensure redundant and all-weather access to forward areas, the (fully overlooked) Pak-border facing Amritsar-Jamnagar expressway - don't these count as strategic investments? As the military says, amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics. We at BRF should at least consider logistics in our arguments.

Lastly, there is always the emotional argument to sway the public that the forces aren't getting their due, so the defense minister cannot always overrule the military brass and simply make them buy local. Even Shri Parrikar could not do that for all programs, otherwise why did he float the SEF acquisition followed by MRFA/MRCA for the post-Rafale order plan? Yes, he had more domain knowledge that helped call out BS and clear a path for the Tejas, and the country would forever be grateful to him, but there were limits to what he could also do. That's the unfortunate reality, and we should realize that's because of the complexity of the domain itself, and not just take the easy way out and say incompetence.

I feel we are being uncharitable to Rajnath Singh - perhaps because he doesn't speak much. But to say he is not working toward a strategy is patently wrong, and we at BRF should do better analysis.

Ashwini Vaishnav is a technocrat minister. I believe he is an engineer from an elite institution (perhaps IIT...didn't look up) and he acts like one. If one hears his talks on Railways & Semi-conductor sector, it is clear he knows what he is talking about.

Frankly, I'm not too impressed with Vaishnav-ji in Railways. The botched up deployment of the Vande Bharat trains that are marginally faster than existing Shatabdi like trains despite having much better potential and sub-optimal routing and time-tabling, the sleeper version taking forever to see the light of the day, the continuing tussle between arms of the Railways such as electical and mechanical, resulting in no vision to upgrade the rolling stock (very low MEMU orders so local passenger trains need locos to haul them, but passenger loco production numbers are not sufficient either, resulting in freight locos beind pulled off and deployed on passenger trains), no clear answers to the horrendous Coromandel express mishap, little to no investment in technical infrastructure improvement, such as:

- most sections still run on the manual absolute block signalling system
- most turnouts are still rated for 15kph, any train wastes at least 15-mins through any major junction navigating these slow turnouts
- long-overdue speed upgrades to just 130 across the network is still largely a work in progress (closer to home, you mentioned the JTJ-SBC work)
- where operational, the speed upgrade has hardly resulted in faster trains. Instead, the Railway bureaucracy simply added more slack time to their timetables to maintain punctuality, so we have trains running 2024 to a slower timetable compared to what they followed a full 30-40 years ago (Tamilnadu express, Brindavan express are good examples).

All of these severely limits throughput, which is used by the Railway board to turnaround and say congestion and not speed up trains. It's a vicious cycle.

Freight trains are as slow as before despite operationalizing DFCs and multiple tripling and quadrupling projects, so the bulk of the country's freight continues to move on polluting roadways.

Finally, the less said about passenger experience, the better, but I cannot hold back on this:
- pathetic quality of newly built passenger coaches,
- pathetic maintenance, even at the Vande Bharat or Rajdhani level
- sub-optimal food options, poor maintenance of toilets, bed-rolls, etc.
- a rampant enchroachment problem, no doubt encouraged by the Railways themselves by selling a huge number of waitlisted tickets and an uncapped number of unreserved tickets to mobilize revenue while cutting back on TTE/enforcement staff - so who suffers? The genuine fare-paying passenger who has no alternative but to put up.

In effect, the system is being ruled by a Railway bureaucracy that is answerable to no one but itself - these have made a mockery of the Railway minister's leadership. Let's face it, after Suresh Prabhu's departure, the Railways ministry has been very underwhelming despite record financial support from the government.

I am hoping behind the scenes, there are a lot of activity for greater indigenisation, identification of long-term strategic goals for Bharat from a defense & civilizational perspective.

Saar, I'm saying all of this is happening right before our eyes, should we choose to look for them. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

[vijayk]

One thing I strongly feel is we kind of put a break on all reforms ... farm reforms, police, judicial, urban reforms ... everything on standstill

[tandav]

https://www.ft.com/content/9aca35b4-b69 ... b327abce94
Excerpt:
Xi’s government is redirecting investments away from real estate and infrastructure into advanced industries. As domestic wages and profits stagnate, this is supercharging the price competitiveness of the country’s exports on international markets.

Manufacturing Sector needs a serious rethought. India relative poverty in making nearly anything complex is very very evident and is a huge issue both economically, strategically and militarily. Chinese Dominance in manufacturing is now even greater than before. Chinese industrial output is greater than then next 9 economies put together. India has not been able to gain advantage of the China + 1 strategy which has benefited Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia Thailand more.

[Hriday]

In effect, the system is being ruled by a Railway bureaucracy that is answerable to no one but itself - these have made a mockery of the Railway minister's leadership.

So the bureaucracy is the main problem. Karan M also pointed out the moves to curtail the powers of DRDO.
To be fair somebody mentioned here that the mindless application of auditing by CAG and others is putting pressure on bureaucracy, and to avoid the charge of corruption, they opt for the non-optimal spending of money. Elon Musk also talked about bureaucracy being a force that is unelected and unaccountable. He once forwarded a Twitter thread that praised the work of Javier Milei, who removed many ministries and the bureaucracy attached to them in Argentina. Don't know how much that is applicable in India. I hope the reforms in Argentina and the work of DOGE in the USA by Elon and Vivek will attract the attention of people in India, and there will be a demand for the reforms.

For those who is interested, an easy to read on Twitter thread on Javier Milei is given below.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/185906743 ... 5xDAw&s=19

To arshyam ji and others, who is responsible for the inefficient bureaucracy in India? Ultimately it is the responsibility of PM, isn't it? Modi is more of a status quo-ist thinking that it as a mark of respect for the institutions.

[chetak]

One thing I strongly feel is we kind of put a break on all reforms ... farm reforms, police, judicial, urban reforms ... everything on standstill

vijayk ji,

Everything is on standstill because external forces have organized internal opposition to the extent of large scale social disruption and are more than willing to use money power to precipitate anarchy, riots, rebellion and mobocracy. The Govt is feeling its way slowly and cautiously, consolidating its hold and extending its reach

To expect large scale reforms and social change is foolhardy, given how the BIF managed the shaheen bagh "riots" and the "farmer's protests" to virtually lock down the nation's capital in the full glare of the embassies and diplomatic missions operating out of delhi, not to mention the viciously hostile foreign "correspondents" operating there

look at how the mafioso reacted when the BJP got a lesser number of seats and look at where these very same mafioso have landed up today

and vijayk ji, just imagine our plight had musk not purchased twitter and blunted many an attack, literally on a global scale.

We do not realize what a singularly dramatic effect twitter has had, both on the out come of the general elections in India as well as amrika and on hostile forces operating out of kaneda and the khalistani ecosystem

what you are seeking will happen in the fullness of time and that is to say, in the near to mid term timelines.

They are throwing everything at Modi ji, the beedi regime change, paki forces surfacing in the beedi jihadi ecosystem, the many stings of the scorpions tail, the pressures on Putin, and the soreass backed mafioso scum that has to be dealt with in India even as the bidenwa (obummer) regime starts to wind down.

Things are poised on a razor's edge. Have patience

[chetak]

पप्पू wanted Parsi Priest as NHRC head & Muralidhar & Akil Kureshi as members. His priorities are very clear

[Those who don't know enough about Muralidhar can always google]










Pappu wanted Justice KM Joseph as member too

[chetak]

marxist politbureau member from kerala exposes the worst kept secret of Italians.

he says they have pact with muslim extremists in lieu of safe passage in wayanad




WATCH VIDEO


the video is 2:20 minutes long



the mafioso have stolen their jihadi votebanks and the commies are not at all happy about it


https://indianexpress.com/article/citie ... r-9738184/

Communist Party of India (Marxist) politburo member A Vijayaraghavan Saturday alleged that a “communal Muslim alliance” was behind the victory of congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi from Wayanad Lok Sabha seat.

Addressing the CPI(M) Wayanad district conference at Sulthan Bathery, Vijayaraghavan said: “Two persons have gone from Wayanad (Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi). With whose support? With the strong support of the communal Muslim alliance. Without their support, was it possible for Rahul Gandhi to reach Delhi. He is the Opposition leader. Who were in the front and back rows of the processions of Priyanka Gandhi? The worst extremist elements in the minorities were in them. They were with the Congress leadership. Without the support of the communal Muslim alliance, was it possible for Rahul Gandhi to reach Delhi,’’ he said.

[chetak]

How many people has Rahul given jobs to?

How many has Adani?

How many ports, airports, power plants, cement units & infrastructure projects has Rahul helped build?

How many has Adani helped build?

Rahul is right. Adani & he can never be one. But Soros & Rahul can be.

[ernest]

I feel we are being uncharitable to Rajnath Singh - perhaps because he doesn't speak much. But to say he is not working toward a strategy is patently wrong, and we at BRF should do better analysis.

Great post, Arshyam ji. I think that handling the defence ministry in the current state is not a one person job. Rajnath Singh ji needs an able Minister of State, who can take some burden off his plate. I think somone like Bhaduria sir, or a technocrat who knows how to work with the govt setup will be best.

IMO, best would be to get RKS Bhaduria sir to serve as the Min of State for Defence, and he can focus on technical aspects, while DefMin focuses on personnel, organization, funding, etc. His advice to the Defmin will counteract other voices within MoD that are still in the old mindset. Our best chance at reviving Kaveri dev/production.

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[chetak]

It was always Congress

"Supreme court judgement on Ram temple was a wrong judgement" "Hindu demanding temples are tyrant dictators" - Justice Nariman

Yesterday Congress proposed name of Justice Nariman for name of NHRC Chairperson.

So Justice Nariman was always targeting Hindus on instructions of Congress ?

It was Congress that didn't let build Ram temple at Ayodhya for 70 years

Modi govt rejected Congress proposal and appointed Justice V Ramasubramanian as new Chairperson of NHRC

[bala]

Pappu wanted Justice KM Joseph as member too

One cannot forget easily Princeling UdayNidhi Stalin of DMK who openly said that सनातन धर्म Sanatan Dharma should be eradicated. Well, it turns out that his mom who is devout Sanatani Dharma practitioner, has an astrologer who is very close to her. He suggested as प्रायश्चित्त prāyaścitta they need to call up 3 ब्राह्मण brahmins and apologize for son's stupidity. Mother and son called up the 3 ब्राह्मण brahmins, washed their feet and prayed chanting sanskrit mantras. This stuff does not go unreported since another ब्राह्मण brahmin leaked the story and as usual DMK thugs arrested him. But the cat is out of the bag.

सनातन धर्म Sanatana Dharma precedes all other things for sentient beings in this world. It is based on ऋत Rta or natural law/order of the universe. No one can subvert सनातन धर्म tis the way to function in this universe for mankind.

[Hriday]

^^
Very interesting! bala ji any links, please? I am sure most Hindus in Tamil Nadu are temple-going, keeping photos of deities at home for blessings, etc type. If Annamalai or any influential political person can tell the Tamils that supporting anti-Hindu parties, Periyar supporters, etc, is like abusing their own deities and will cause wrath or karma, then there could be a significant shift in voting preferences. Even communist Kerala showed this change in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections as a result of communist interference in Sabarimala.

[Hriday]

Sorry for the off topic. The below should be a general lesson for every Hindus in India. Especially considering that as except Gujarat even 60 percent of Hindus don't vote for BJP, but vote to other parties with proven anti Hindu stance.

https://www.opindia.com/2021/04/karnata ... -arrested/

The reason why both Raheem and Taufiq were so scared that they went back to the temple to confess, was because the third and the main culprit, Nawaz, who had put the condom in the Hundi box in the first place, had died under mysterious circumstances. Soon after his crime, Nawaz started acting insane, which then turned into blood vomiting and dysentery. Finally, Nawaz died by banging his own head on a wall, his last words being that Lord Koragajja is angry with the culprits.

The Hindu newspaper also reported the same incident. Link below.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Ma ... 218404.ece

The untimely demise of the perpetrator in the desecration of Koragajja Daivasthanas, who had challenged the power of the Spirit, and his advice before his death to two of the accomplices that they admit their guilt before Koragajja, has led to the arrest of two persons by the police thereby bringing relief to thousands of Koragajja devotees.

[bala]

^^
Very interesting! bala ji any links, please?

https://www.indiatoday.in/amp/india/tam ... 2024-12-18

The actual incident has been suppressed, but my mother narrated this incident.

[bala]

BTW there is another incident about Anna Univ in Guindy, Chennai, where a lady student was raped by a DMK operative running a biryani stall outside the Univ. The DMK is relunctant to book this ogre into jail similar to what happened in W. Bengal somedays back. DJP Annamalai has vowed he will not wear chappal until this fellow is booked and charged.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zspvs8L8G00

[chetak]

PM condoles Manmohan Singh's death


The Government of India has cancelled all programs scheduled for tomorrow and has declared a national mourning of 7 days.

Dr Manmohan Singh’s last rites will be conducted with full state honours.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday condoled former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's death, stating India lost one of its distinguished leaders.

PM Modi took to X and wrote, “India mourns the loss of one of its most distinguished leaders, Dr. Manmohan Singh Ji. Rising from humble origins, he rose to become a respected economist. He served in various government positions as well, including as Finance Minister, leaving a strong imprint on our economic policy over the years. His interventions in Parliament were also insightful. As our Prime Minister, he made extensive efforts to improve people’s lives.”

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/video/i ... 2024-12-26

[Amber G.]

Breaking News: (Sharing it here - India's PM and his visits in US are very important.

Ohio Passes Law to Recognize Diwali as a State Holiday!


In a historic move, Ohio has become the latest state to recognize Diwali as a state holiday. Starting from 2025, Students in Ohio will be able to take a day off from school to celebrate this significant festival .

This new law, which was made possible through the passage of HB 214, also allows students to take two additional days off for other religious holidays.

Diwali, which is celebrated over five days, is an important festival in the Hindu calendar and is marked by lighting oil lamps, setting off fireworks, and offering prayers. This new law will enable Hindu students in Ohio to participate fully in these celebrations without having to worry about missing school.

Note: In Ohio it is legal to use fireworks on Diwali (as well as few other days eg - 4th or July, New Year etc)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gfvt71eWMAA ... ame=medium

[Vayutuvan]

Students can take a day off. Yes, but they still have to catch up with the class. That is the rub. No PIO parent would want their kids to miss school and rightly so, IMHO.

[KL Dubey]

I feel we are being uncharitable to Rajnath Singh - perhaps because he doesn't speak much. But to say he is not working toward a strategy is patently wrong, and we at BRF should do better analysis.

I have to agree. He is a realist and is working diligently to fix some key problems, not trying to "fix everything" at the same time. Your post described most of these initiatives. Additionally, one bold (and risky) move from Rajanathan is the Agnipath scheme - despite some gaps in communicating the objectives of the scheme, it is starting to show results.

That said, the direction of the IAF (including lack of indigenous engines) is troubling. Efforts are being made to correct this, but it is one area that MoD needs to come up with something effective to fast track IAF buildup and defeat the import lobby.

[Atmavik]

^^ he is doing much better than Roadkari and GST Mammi

[A Deshmukh]

I think Rajnath Singh has done a very decent job.

Some projects are doing good
- artillery - multiple parallel projects moving forward - some slow (Dhanush, ATAGS, MGS), some good (Sharang, M777, K9) - good hedging
- missiles - so many missile projects running in parallel - some like Akash, Astra, Pinaka, Brahmos - good progress.
- ship building - many smaller ships under construction, dry docks built, kept the IAC2 on delay so that it does eat up all the budget
- UAVs and drones - we are behind some other countries but govt has opened doors for private players and funding startups big time - this will result in many innovative products.
- helis - ALH, LCH, in good order, LUH and others will follow
- radars - we were behind the world 10 years ago. now are on par.
- small arms - rifles, body armor - decent progress
- collaboration with other armed forces - so many exercises, army, af, navy, with countries all over the world - asian, african, americans, logistics agreements with many countries
- export - defence products are being exported now. focused push across all continents - Brahmos, Tejas, ATAGS, Pinaka, Akash, etc. we are on the right path
- atmanirbhar - a large percentage of procurement is done internally now, if not designed in Bharat, at least manufactured in Bharat.

Some projects are not upto the mark -
- Tejas - but this due to perfidy from external sources.
- Kaveri - should have put in more funds assuming GE and Safran behaviour.
- submarine building - scorpene design leakage disrupted the plans.
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[chetak]

PV Narasimha Rao wasn't so fortunate

The congress is evil. They wantonly destroyed the legacies of 3 giants of their times

Sardar Patel, Dr Ambedkar, and PV Narsimha Rao.

All three were humiliated in their life times.

Now, the desperate congis are trying to reclaim their legacies, only because Modi has already restored their glories.

[chetak]

This is what happens when you try to flex your imaginary muscles against India


- Pakistan is begging for money.

- Bangladesh is begging for Rice.

- Sri Lanka is begging for an Economic Bailout.

- Maldives is begging for humanitarian assistance.

- Nepal's PM begging India for an invitation to visit, which has not been forthcoming since the recent nepali elections after which oli took office on 15 July

[bala]

In this YT Maj Gen Rajiv Narayanan unloads on many things including China's dam proposal on their river feeding into Brahmaputra with 10% water contribution, MMS who he claims was a stupid chamchagiri and Sonia G was calling the shots, MMS daughter was corrupt to the core, etc. People like Bukha Dutt, Sagarika Gosh and others were given prime slots on discussion with Kangress. Also discussed are the geopolitical khel and deep state shenanigans in the global forum. He does not believe the new fangled chinese aircraft is 6 th gen more like 4.5 gen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iauphivhWtg

[Sachin]

- Bangladesh is begging for Rice.

But was'nt this beggar nation getting too uppity last week and said about launching a War on India? Honestly, I feel Pakistanis have more H&D than these beggars.

[Tanaji]

Chetakji’s other bestie is trying to get into the limelight again:

https://indianexpress.com/article/india ... newlist_hp

The man is trying hard to stay relevant…

[RCase]

This is what happens when you try to flex your imaginary muscles against India


- Pakistan is begging for money.

- Bangladesh is begging for Rice.

- Sri Lanka is begging for an Economic Bailout.

- Maldives is begging for humanitarian assistance.

- Nepal's PM begging India for an invitation to visit, which has not been forthcoming since the recent nepali elections after which oli took office on 15 July

...

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully (Samuel Johnson), is equally applicable for nations. If BD threatens or provokes India, let them pay dearly for their choices. No food, fuel, electricity etc. That will focus their minds quickly.

I think India should make an example out of one of these neighboring countries, so that it will remain in the psyche of others never to contemplate anti India stance in the future. How come none of the neighbors of China contemplate such actions? Just see the reaction of the ASEAN countries, Philippines, Taiwan, SL, Pak etc. Even India is very cautious about any anti China stance.

[chetak]

It is very high time that Shri. Rajnath Singh ji handover the charge of defence ministry to someone in the same league of Shri Ashwini Vaishnav, Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar.

hemant_sai ji,


We don't need/have to make this stupid mistake. We need a bunch of savvy politicos, who are also honest, ideologically sound and committed to run these vital ministries.

otherwise the worst mistakes of the mafioso clan which marches to the tune of a different drummer will be committed once again to our severe detriment


Keep all jernails, no matter who, out of the MOD, each jernail comes with his own baggage, some seen, and many unseen and one is not talking of integrity or honesty but of core institutional biases that have been bred into them during their years of service

We need people whose horizons are broad, not technocrats who are limited in their outlook and vision, politicos dream and some like Modi ji and his small band of committed warriors are are visionary. very few can actually see both banks of the river at the same time

raincoat and white waisty were running vital ministries, which they either plundered for personal profit, or allowed to be plundered under the guise of "compulsions of coalition politics" to benefit one mafioso clan in particular

It was a bunch of technocrats who ran the country into the ground, and guys like raincoat and rosie rajan were instrumental in this process, people who knew exactly what was happening and still let it happen.

Don't forget that India's best RBI governor since independence was a history major until he retired recently. His stewardship of India's central bank is acknowledged globally

technocrats can be brought in on a project basis, hired or consulted

People like vaishnav are not available easily, especially someone who is ideologically in sync, committed to the cause, and also performance oriented. If you have managed to find someone like him, hold on to him and vaishnav's strong suit is a that of an analytically led, always goal oriented and an in sync team player who is able to navigate pitfalls without ruffling feathers

keep the jernails out of the MOD.

[chetak]

x posted from the beedi thread



vi@WA

Article in Hindu today by law lecturers from Delhi and London makes a case for Hasina’s extradition to BD or trial virtually while in India, i.e. for Hasina subjecting herself to BD jurisdiction and trial. India is asked to facilitate this.

Even the possibility of indictment by the International Criminal Court is discussed.

Clearly, international forces with local elements are at work to make this a divisive issue between India and BD with such tutored and sponsored articles so that public discussion on this issue continues and is legitimised.

Article takes no account of the fact that there is no legitimate government in power in BD. It is the Islamist mob with military support that has taken over. The judiciary is not independent as it has succumbed to coercion by Islamist students.

The minorities are being persecuted.

Just putting a compromised stooge on top to deflect attention from the “ meticulously planned” ( Yunus’s words) regime overthrown by the Islamists doesn’t create legitimacy.

Only an elected government through free, fair and inclusive elections can initiate a legitimate legal process.

The current regime in BD seeks vengeance not justice.

The established legal dictum is that those who seek justice should come with clean hands.

https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/t ... 044282.ece

[pravula]

Minister of State is always an option for these technocrats. Let them focus on specific areas.

[bala]

Finally BJP S. Jaishankar blames Neverwho for the J&K debacle, no words minced. Neverwho was nulled into "internationalism" by nations like the UK, USA, Belgium and Canada. J&K was changed into India & Paki issue. S. Jaishankar goes on to praise Sardar Patel who handled Junagadh, Hyderbad and Goa. The Indus water treaty of 1960 is also blamed on Kangress.

[Lisa]

Even the possibility of indictment by the International Criminal Court is discussed.

India is not even a signatory to the ICC so very good luck to the beedies with that.

[chetak]

Even the possibility of indictment by the International Criminal Court is discussed.

India is not even a signatory to the ICC so very good luck to the beedies with that.

Lisa ji,

Of course they all know it, but try they must.

Its no freedom of speech issue but their ill will and rancour are on public view

The people discussing this issue in print or/and otherwise are not among the well wishers of India, even though they are born in and shamelessly continue to leach off India

This is wishful thinking on their part, mostly futile efforts in trying to impress their BIF masters and gain brownie points

let these rabid dogs bark, while the caravan continues on its merry way

[fanne]

I think this is to preempt India from claiming election interference (with proof) by protectors of democracy

[chetak]

Chetakji’s other bestie is trying to get into the limelight again:

https://indianexpress.com/article/india ... newlist_hp

The man is trying hard to stay relevant…

I have three besties Tanaji saar,

3R, PK and IMF gopinath and all are soreass/BIF connected

[chetak]

Arvind Kejriwal and AAP has deteriorated the financial health of Delhi.

AAP has no money to fulfill its promises.

- Delhi to slip in revenue deficit for the first time in 31 years.

- Tax revenue/ GDP of Delhi less than national average. At historical low of 3. 95%.