Elections Modi 3.0

[Manish_Sharma]

https://x.com/MahaRathii/status/2052773 ... 82589?s=20

For those who still don’t understand why BJP’s victory in West Bengal matters so much — read this carefully.

This was not just an election.this was a battle over the future social and political map of Eastern India.

In February 2026, Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh recorded its biggest rise in 25 years in Bangladesh — winning 68 seats.

Do you know the most striking part?

Out of those 68 seats, 51 were won in regions sharing a border with India.

Now look at Bengal.

There are 44 constituencies in Bengal that share a border with Bangladesh. In 2021, 27 of those seats were won by All India Trinamool Congress.

These regions have long been politically sensitive, especially because many stretches of the India–Bangladesh border cannot be fully fenced due to geographical challenges.

Then came another major development — the return of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in Bangladesh.

Historically, every time BNP gained power, India’s Northeast entered a more sensitive security phase.

So look at the sequence:

• BNP returning to power in Bangladesh
• Jamaat-e-Islami gaining heavily in border regions
• Ongoing concerns around illegal migration and border demographics

This combination turned Bengal into a high-priority political battleground for BJP.

That is why BJP focused intensely on border constituencies — through booth-level work, voter outreach, and long-term organizational expansion.

Sangh-affiliated groups like Seemanta Chetna Manch had already spent years working in Bengal’s border districts, going door to door, speaking directly to people, and building awareness at the grassroots level.

This election was not fought casually.
It was fought with a precise strategy.
While others were busy with slogans, BJP was building a network on the ground.

And the result became visible in the voting patterns of several border districts. For BJP, Bengal was never just another state election. It was part of a much larger political and strategic vision.

Today, almost the entire Northeast is governed either by BJP or BJP allies. Bengal now becomes the next major frontier in that political map.

That’s why this victory is bigger than people think. This wasn’t just about defeating a party. This was about securing influence over one of India’s most sensitive political corridors.

This time, BJP came prepared to play for the long game.

[Manish_P]

...People do not understand external threats and seem oblivious to internal threats (e.g., X-men with conversion agenda). ...

Hindus understand external threats only when the threat has a blade right up against their throats. Till then they are focused on 'local' issues onleee. As if local issues are not that much of a problem for non-hindus.

...For this reason, for all the "hindu-ness" of TN, the stark choice today in that state is either the "dravidian" parties that want to "eradicate sanatana dharma" or a guy named Joseph inserted by external forces as a Kejriwal-like plant. Such hindu-ness is simply not in hindu interest. ...

Hindus seem to believe in and want a messiah even more than the Abrahamics. Give us an 'Annamalai' or a 'Bandi Sanjay Kumar' and then and only then we will vote for you. But once the swords are near the throat then we are quite happy to import a 'Hemanta' or 'Suvendu' who were previously from the opposite side and quickly give them our votes..

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A similar situation is there in KL, but I see the situation there improving rather dramatically.
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I am not optimistic about Kerala. Demography is everything. At nearly 50% and reducing further the writing is pretty much on the wall...

[Manish_P]

... Net net, on the ground level, people are not prevented from following traditions, so it doesn't translate into political consolidation...

Agree. We will wait till they do and then start looking for heroes. Even non-filmy or non-TV types....

...As for the conversion mafia, it is still below the general Hindu threshold of tolerance, not least because of the above-mentioned festivals going on in full gusto. So people don't feel a threat to their way of life...

That's the clever part. It is working well using stealth and keeping it below the threshold level till the critical mass is reached. When any attempt is made to bring it to the light now folks go 'Oh but these are not local issue. Not RKM issue'

Let's face it, the average voter anywhere in the country votes on the basis of the most pressing and immediate issue (usually RKM-related), not a long term strategic direction, and it's the same here...

The average hindu voter

But Arshyam ji, i do get and respect the points you and others (based in or with TN origins) have made. Thanks to some educative and illuminating posts. The strategy needs to be different. I do think it will accordingly modified in the future. Luckily we don't have fools or clowns heading the country now. They will sort out the country state by state (border states first), threat by threat (pan-india naxals first) rather than try all at once.

[uddu]

https://x.com/i/status/2052850268761694232
@ThamizhTharmar
TVK Caught in Their Own Trap!

TVK proudly released their OWN video of AMMK MLA Kamaraj "signing support" — but it was done without TTV Dhinakaran's knowledge or consent. Classic self-goal!

This is clear evidence of horse trading & MLA poaching to somehow cross the majority with their 108 seats.

The footage they thought would help them is now self-incriminating proof for the Governor to investigate.

TVK trapped by their own desperation!

[uddu]

https://x.com/i/status/2052787352360374637
@TheBongHead
Fish cutting old women revealing that TMC goons used to charge them daily cut of 20rs and raising it to 100rs.

One claims, one day she could only earn 25rs but had to pay 20rs to the TMC gang.

[Sachin]

Vijay to take oath on May 10.
Okay, so Joseph Vijay would swear in as the CM on 10th May. Looks like the MLAs from riff-raff entities in TN, like Congress with 5 MLAs, CPI & CPI(M) with 4 MLAs, Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Kakshi (VCK) with 2 MLAs, and Muslim League with 1 MLAs have helped J. Vijay achieve cross the magic number of 118. The earlier problem that VCK and Muslim League were not willing to give it in writing that they would support VCK. They insisted that, they will support when a floor test happens. But looks like that issue is sorted out now. VCK and its leader Thol. Thirumavalan have really behaved like Shylock and have asked for very big benefits (including Dy. CM post) from J. Vijay. IIRC, VCK had pro-LTTE leanings, more than that of DMK, but I could be wrong.

Kerala CM decision delayed after high-level Congress discussions in Delhi.
. Kerala had given Congress absolute majority but Pappu Ghandi & Co have not been able to identify who would be the CM. Groupism of Congress in Kerala is legendary. As of today; Congress seems to be having at least 3 CM aspirants (there could be more). VD Satheesan who was the Leader of Opposition, and who is said to have fought the war on the ground, and did all the heavy lifting. His opponents within INC says, he is a puppet of IUML (Muslim League) folks. Ramesh Chennithala who is a bit more seasoned legislator who also have won from Harippad as an MLA. Add to this; there seems to be KC Venugopal also known as "War Room KC" who has shown interest in CM ship. KC Venugopal who is not an MLA at present, but an MP and also is in the close coterie of Pappu Ghandi (i.e. High Command). KC Venugopal is said to be very close, and most likely also actively worked with P.Ghandi on the 99 electoral defeats of INC. It has been nearly 4-5 days, but Congress has not been able to figure out who among the three can be made the CM of Kerala.

[bala]

Suvendu Adhikari, Agnimitra Paul, Dilip Ghosh; Meet BJP’s first historic cabinet in West Bengal
Swearing of Bengal CM

[arshyam]

On the contrary Tamil public was warming up to Annamalai. However it was too ambitious to contest in Coimbatore in a three way race.

Annamalai did not want to contest, stating that his focus was on the state election, but the central brass asked him to, as a symbolic "leading from the front". Second, the three-way fight was inevitable considering the tripolar contest in that election, since the AIADMK had walked out of the NDA. It was not as if Coimbatore alone had a 3-corner fight. But what happened locally (I have a good idea about this having campaigned door-to-door for Annamalai during that election) is that the AIADMK and DMK "fixed" the match behind the scenes and transferred their vote to DMK at the last minute. The AIADMK campaign was perfunctory and not very visible, unlike the DMK's and BJP's.

[arshyam]

On TN: some posters wax eloquent on the "hindu-ness" of TN.

As I said before, this brand of hinduism is culturally rich no doubt - but it does not include proper values of Dharma and cultural unity (perhaps due to the misinformation and fake propaganda of "dravidian" parties over decades). People do not understand external threats and seem oblivious to internal threats (e.g., X-men with conversion agenda).

For this reason, for all the "hindu-ness" of TN, the stark choice today in that state is either the "dravidian" parties that want to "eradicate sanatana dharma" or a guy named Joseph inserted by external forces as a Kejriwal-like plant. Such hindu-ness is simply not in hindu interest.

TN has stayed "hindu" because northern parts of the country took the hits and sacrificed millions of lives during centuries of invasions. Now I say, its damn time to return the favor and stop conversion/X-men from proliferating using TN as a base. A similar situation is there in KL, but I see the situation there improving rather dramatically.

You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. Perhaps stick to issues that you are familiar with, if any?

P.S. As Rajiv Malhotra said in the recent Indraprastha conference in Delhi, the left ecosystem does one thing very well: they develop experts in a specific field who go deep in that field and become an authority over time, but also have the discipline to not stray into other domains where their knowledge becomes limited. Something for the nationalist ecosystem to ponder over.

[uddu]

Annamalai did not want to contest, stating that his focus was on the state election, but the central brass asked him to, as a symbolic "leading from the front". Second, the three-way fight was inevitable considering the tripolar contest in that election, since the AIADMK had walked out of the NDA. It was not as it Coimbatore alone had a 3-corner fight. But what happened locally (I have a good idea about this having campaigned door-to-door for Annamalai during that election) is that the AIADMK and DMK "fixed" the match behind the scenes and transferred their vote to DMK at the last minute. The AIADMK campaign was perfunctory and not very visible, unlike the DMK's and BJP's.

This will work until the Nationalist forces could garner more votes than the combined match fixing votes. Tough but this is what awaits BJP in southern states. This started with Keralam, where they had a seat in Nemam. Then Congress fielded a candidate and ensured that the left voted for them to make it a win for Anti-India forces. Eventually when BJP could overcome the combined forces and win in 3 seats this time. While it's very difficult to win where the demographic change has happened. Only when there are two such parties vying for the same votes, BJP can win. At some point BJP must turn to be the only viable alternative as happened in Bengal.
Also in states like Keralam, BJP must avoid the middle men like Padres or Maulana's and go directly to the people. They could get a certain percentage of votes. While if they approach through Padres, even that votes will vanish from the same community and above all the Hindu community. BJP must also ensure to give the same constituency for the same candidate again and again. In Chathannoor, the current winning candidate B B Gopakumar is contesting from 2016. People must be familiar with the BJP candidate rather than the current trend of keep changing them and making them contest from some seat here or there in each and every election.

[arshyam]

... Net net, on the ground level, people are not prevented from following traditions, so it doesn't translate into political consolidation...

Agree. We will wait till they do and then start looking for heroes. Even non-filmy or non-TV types....

Did WB run to elect the BJP a decade ago, when the signs were getting apparent to us (meaning BRF and nationalist folks elsewhere)? Consider that WB had actually experienced terrible communal violence (Direct Action Day, post-Partition, 1971, etc.), unlike most of southern India. I am not saying it is the right thing, but that is the tendency of Hindus in general to wait till it becomes uncomfortable. KL is another example - many people have awakened due to the demographic imbalance and the issues that come along with it. But can we say that they have thrown their full weight behind the BJP? I'm sure they will, when the time is right, but will leave experts from KL to chime in with their analysis of the results.

...As for the conversion mafia, it is still below the general Hindu threshold of tolerance, not least because of the above-mentioned festivals going on in full gusto. So people don't feel a threat to their way of life...

That's the clever part. It is working well using stealth and keeping it below the threshold level till the critical mass is reached. When any attempt is made to bring it to the light now folks go 'Oh but these are not local issue. Not RKM issue'

Agreed. But as I said, it's our tendency in general.

But Arshyam ji, i do get and respect the points you and others (based in or with TN origins) have made. Thanks to some educative and illuminating posts. The strategy needs to be different. I do think it will accordingly modified in the future. Luckily we don't have fools or clowns heading the country now. They will sort out the country state by state (border states first), threat by threat (pan-india naxals first) rather than try all at once.

Thank you for the kind words, sir. I'm sure the strategy will be different. We all were disappointed and very critical of the BJP leadership after WB 2021, and now they are where they are, thanks to an improved (and more hands-on) strategy. But the amount of focus WB required (and it was super important) meant that one could not spare much focus elsewhere. TN needs a lot of focus, but in a very different way compared to WB's. Talking down to, as a poster here attempted to earlier, is the worst thing one can do, and the BJP has suffered from the same issue in the past. So I understand AS's approach here - address the most critical issue first, then get to the next. The change of Gov RN Ravi from TN to WB is a good metaphor to describe that approach. Now that WB is in safe hands, the BJP's first step should be to clean house in their TN unit. Too much infighting and pulling each other down. Again, nothing unique from other state units, but it is needed before going back to the people.

[arshyam]

Annamalai did not want to contest, stating that his focus was on the state election, but the central brass asked him to, as a symbolic "leading from the front". Second, the three-way fight was inevitable considering the tripolar contest in that election, since the AIADMK had walked out of the NDA. It was not as it Coimbatore alone had a 3-corner fight. But what happened locally (I have a good idea about this having campaigned door-to-door for Annamalai during that election) is that the AIADMK and DMK "fixed" the match behind the scenes and transferred their vote to DMK at the last minute. The AIADMK campaign was perfunctory and not very visible, unlike the DMK's and BJP's.

This will work until the Nationalist forces could garner more votes than the combined match fixing votes. Tough but this is what awaits BJP in southern states. This started with Keralam, where they had a seat in Nemam. Then Congress fielded a candidate and ensured that the left voted for them to make it a win for Anti-India forces. Eventually when BJP could overcome the combined forces and win in 3 seats this time. While it's very difficult to win where the demographic change has happened. Only when there are two such parties vying for the same votes, BJP can win. At some point BJP must turn to be the only viable alternative as happened in Bengal.
Also in states like Keralam, BJP must avoid the middle men like Padres or Maulana's and go directly to the people. They could get a certain percentage of votes. While if they approach through Padres, even that votes will vanish from the same community and above all the Hindu community. BJP must also ensure to give the same constituency for the same candidate again and again. In Chathannoor, the current winning candidate B B Gopakumar is contesting from 2016. People must be familiar with the BJP candidate rather than the current trend of keep changing them and making them contest from some seat here or there in each and every election.

There is also the winnability factor, as I understand it. Dileep chetta had mentioned this long ago - people in KL want their local rep to be able to fix their day-to-day issues, and that is a big factor in their voting decisions. I see the same thing in TN - people are able to go to the local DMK/AIADMK councillor/MLA and get their issues sorted somehow. The BJP does not have that muscle/experience on the ground and is only slowly developing it, whereas the other two have been at it for decades with excellent institutional memory.

[Manish_Sharma]

https://x.com/TheDispatch01/status/2053 ... 74059?s=20

When Mamata Banerjee Chose Her Nephew Over Her General and Lost Bengal

A Deep Analysis

There is a moment in every political story where the defining mistake is made. Not on the battlefield. Not in the ballot box. In the room, when a leader decides who they trust more: the person who earned it, or the person who shares their blood.

For Mamata Banerjee, that moment came after 2011. She had just ended 34 years of Left Front rule. And among the architects of that victory stood one man above almost all others, Suvendu Adhikari, the field commander of Nandigram and the organiser who turned anti Left anger into a political revolution.

Instead of consolidating him, she began building her succession plan around her nephew, Abhishek Banerjee.

What He Built For Her Before She Took It Away

Before the sidelining, there was the service. And it was extraordinary.

Trained in RSS shakhas during his formative years and baptised in electoral politics in 1995, Suvendu Adhikari joined the TMC with his father Sisir Adhikari barely a year after it was formed. From that point, he became Mamata's most dependable field general, not in title, but in consequence.

• 2006 to 2007, Singur and Nandigram: Suvendu played a crucial role in the historic Nandigram anti land acquisition movement, which became the turning point in West Bengal politics and contributed significantly to the TMC's rise to power in 2011. When the Left Front government ordered police firing on protesting farmers, it was Suvendu on the ground, organising resistance, mobilising communities, and turning Nandigram into the Left's political graveyard. Mamata got the credit. He did the work.

• 2009, Tamluk Lok Sabha: He defeated CPI(M) strongman Lakshman Seth from Tamluk by a staggering margin of over 1.72 lakh votes. Seth was the central figure in the Nandigram violence. The victory was a political statement that announced the TMC's south Bengal dominance.

• 2011, The Historic Victory: The TMC won 184 seats and ended the Left's 34 year rule. Suvendu's ground network across Purba Medinipur, Paschim Medinipur, and the coastal belt was instrumental in delivering seats that the party could not have won through Mamata's urban charisma alone. He was the machine behind the movement.

• 2014, Lok Sabha retained: Re elected from Tamluk. TMC maintained its Bengal dominance while the Modi wave swept the rest of India. The south Bengal firewall held, in significant part, because of the ground networks Suvendu had built.

• 2016, Cabinet induction: He was given the Transport portfolio and later the Irrigation and Water Resources portfolio. He was made TMC observer in Malda and Murshidabad and assigned the task of breaking Congress in its two strongholds. He successfully poached elected representatives of the grand old party. He delivered territory that had never belonged to TMC.

This is the record of the man she chose to sideline.

The Timeline of a Systematic Sidelining

• 2011: Abhishek Banerjee, then 24, was named president of All India Trinamool Yuva, a parallel youth organisation created alongside the TMC Youth Congress that Suvendu led. The party constitution had no place for two youth wings. Suvendu was furious:

"It was done just to keep me in check. Where was the nephew when Nandigram was burning? I was there fighting alone."

• 2014: Suvendu was removed as TMC Youth Congress president. Months later, TMC Yuva was merged with the Youth Congress, absorbing the structure he had built into Abhishek's institutional control.

• 2016: Sensing that Suvendu was in talks with the Congress to switch parties, Mamata brought him back, giving him three cabinet portfolios and making him TMC observer in Malda and Murshidabad, with the task of breaking Congress strongholds there.

He delivered. He poached Congress representatives across both districts. He strengthened the party.

He was used.

• 2019: After TMC's Lok Sabha setback, the observer posts were abolished, including the specific organisational role Suvendu held across north Bengal.

Gone. No replacement. No acknowledgment.

His institutional authority had been removed one piece at a time, each time after he had delivered on the assignment that required it.

• December 19, 2020: Suvendu Adhikari joined the BJP at a rally addressed by Amit Shah. He later described the TMC as a "private limited company", a diagnosis, not an attack.

What Left With Him

When Suvendu walked, he did not walk alone.

He took the south Bengal machine with him, the booth networks, the panchayat contacts, the district loyalty chains built across Purba Medinipur over decades, and operational ecosystems that no data consultancy or election war room can manufacture.

The BJP swept all 16 Assembly seats in Purba Medinipur in 2026. TMC won zero.

In 2021, they had shared the district.

That swing is not ideology. That is a personal loyalty network changing sides.

The Final Accounting

In 2026, Suvendu Adhikari defeated Mamata Banerjee in Bhabanipur by 15,105 votes and retained Nandigram by 9,665 votes, up from his 2021 margin of just 1,956.

Today, he took oath as the 9th Chief Minister of West Bengal, the first BJP Chief Minister in the state's history.

The collapse of TMC's dominance in 2026 cannot be understood only through BJP expansion or anti incumbency. A major structural reason was that the political machinery which once made Mamata Banerjee unbeatable had, over nine years of deliberate marginalisation, shifted against her.

The irony is extraordinary.

Mamata Banerjee spent a decade building Abhishek Banerjee's path to power. During those same years, she was building Suvendu Adhikari's motivation to destroy the empire he once helped create.

She sidelined the man who stood in Nandigram when Bengal's future was being decided in the streets, and elevated a successor whose primary qualification was proximity to the throne.

The man Mamata deployed to break Congress strongholds in Malda and Murshidabad, then stripped of that role once the task was done, broke her own stronghold in Bhabanipur five years later.

She created the instrument of her own defeat. She sharpened it. She handed it motive.

Dynasty over merit has a cost.

In Bengal, 2026 was the bill coming due.

[Sachin]

Dileep chetta had mentioned this long ago - people in KL want their local rep to be able to fix their day-to-day issues, and that is a big factor in their voting decisions.

In a way, Dileep and you are right. Kerala people do expect their elected reps (at the state or local level) to be able to resolve their problems. Religion etc comes after that (especially for Hindus and to an extent Christians as well). And that is where some of the BJP leaders of the state abysmally fail. They focus on pure "Hindu Khatre mein hein" type claims, over-emphasising only on religion. That will not click well. And those leaders are also not capable to get the day-to-day issues of people resolved. I am sure if some kind of religious riots happens Keralaites would then start "demanding" BJP or RSS to help them; but the state is not in that situation at present. And so some of the campaign strategies of BJP will get called out as "Fear/Hate mongering".

[bala]

Hearing news that Joseph Vijay of TVK has clinched the support of Kangress and other assorted parties and will be sworn in as CM of TN shortly.

I have a feeling that the SoreAss faction has infiltrated TN. Rajiv gandhi bonhomie with Vijay is unsettling.

[Sachin]

Hearing news that Joseph Vijay of TVK has clinched the support of Kangress and other assorted parties and will be sworn in as CM of TN shortly.

Yes. Joseph Vijay has taken oath as TN CM. He was short of around 10 MLAs. Congress gave him 5, Commies (CPI+CPI(M)) 2, VCK 1 and IUML 1. From what I heard Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (Liberation Panthers party) seems to have put in very aggressive conditions for the support given by them. Shri. Pappu Ghandi also had attended the oath taking ceremony.

[S_Madhukar]

TN will become another Karnataka now. More budget deficits. Feel bad for the voters but I guess some hard lessons are needed in if you constantly vote for movie actors. Not sure if Op Lotus will be possible for 5 years

[ricky_v]

Rajiv gandhi bonhomie with Vijay is unsettling.

How do they communicate? Via planchette and ouya board

[chetak]

Hearing news that Joseph Vijay of TVK has clinched the support of Kangress and other assorted parties and will be sworn in as CM of TN shortly.

Yes. Joseph Vijay has taken oath as TN CM. He was short of around 10 MLAs. Congress gave him 5, Commies (CPI+CPI(M)) 2, VCK 1 and IUML 1. From what I heard Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (Liberation Panthers party) seems to have put in very aggressive conditions for the support given by them. Shri. Pappu Ghandi also had attended the oath taking ceremony.

Congratulations to the chamchas of ragul ghundy for getting a new father on Mother's Day



That awkward smile when you realise no one gives a flying duck about your presence, no one cheers for you and the limelight is somebody else

[chetak]

Explosives scare near PM Modi event venue on Bengaluru outskirts, suspect in custody

May 10, 2026

The discovery comes amid heightened security arrangements for the Prime Minister's programme in Karnataka, with multiple layers of checking and surveillance deployed around the venue and surrounding areas.

At least two gelatin sticks were recovered near an event venue ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit on the outskirts of Bengaluru on Sunday, triggering a security scare and prompting an intensive police investigation.

The explosives were found near an ashram close to Kagalipura, around 3 kilometres away from the main venue where the Prime Minister was scheduled to attend a programme later in the day.

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/g ... 2026-05-10

[Manish_P]

...
That awkward smile when you realise no one gives a flying duck about your presence, no one cheers for you and the limelight is somebody else[/b]
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Chetak sir, it might be an awkward smile but the gritted teeth tell a different tale

The guy is making sure that folks know that his 5 MLAs are vital to the new CM.

[chetak]

...
That awkward smile when you realise no one gives a flying duck about your presence, no one cheers for you and the limelight is somebody else[/b]
...

Chetak sir, it might be an awkward smile but the gritted teeth tell a different tale

The guy is making sure that folks know that his 5 MLAs are vital to the new CM.

Manish ji,


the traitor guy is skating on very thin ice

thus far, the other 5 non entities, all of them with no base, no face, no future, no hope, just plain vanilla or garden variety of chunu munnus were being funded, wined and dined by the opposing set of padres. It takes just one of them to upset the apple cart. BTW, these are the guys that the DMK has deputed / convinced / paid / coerced/ black mailed or otherwise "bulldozed" into supporting the congis, who together support the TVK

It has left the DMK and it's lot of padres in complete control.

in business parlance, its called the poison pill strategy

A poison pill is a defensive strategy employed by a company to deter hostile takeovers by making it more difficult for an acquirer to gain a controlling interest without board approval.

these new set of padres have padded up to bat, without inspecting, or reading the pitch, or even talking to the groundsman. No due diligence done, especially with respect to the outstanding state debt, and the massive financial drag of the freebies promised

the new padres have simply stolen Annamalai's thunder and moved into the space that he had created with his hard work. The dilli party guys read the ground situation wrongly, failed to understand where Annamalai was coming from, and they did not see, or even make an effort to see for themselves, what he saw and paid the price, which is vanvas for another decade, at the very minimum

there is no rss or any such ideology in the south, and crooks in dhotis enter the arena to loot and scoot, and the dilli guys with their ideology, agenda, and people centric desire to improve the lot of the suffering public have been foolishly pampering the crooks in KAR/TN without realising this basic difference. This is the very difference that makes the local dilli party guys in TN fear Annamalai, as he poses an existential threat to all of them, and they have ganged up with the AIDMK to convince the dilli leaders to sideline him, which they have done

[bala]

Rajiv gandhi bonhomie with Vijay is unsettling.

How do they communicate? Via planchette and ouya board

Yikes, i get confused on the "R" name always, tis Rahul.

[chetak]

How do they communicate? Via planchette and ouya board

Yikes, i get confused on the "R" name always, tis Rahul.

why Bala saar,


if they are communicating via the ouija board, it could very well be rajiv ghundhy, no .............

[VinodTK]

People say that BJP does not remember nor recognize the workers who have been killed for their support to BJP; first step in that direction of recognition; should be followed up by opening cases against the perpetrators.

In Hindi, very sad and touching
Exclusive Ground Report | Bengal में BJP कार्यकर्ताओं के बलिदान को मिला सम्मान! | Brigade Ground

[williams]

Hearing news that Joseph Vijay of TVK has clinched the support of Kangress and other assorted parties and will be sworn in as CM of TN shortly.

Yes. Joseph Vijay has taken oath as TN CM. He was short of around 10 MLAs. Congress gave him 5, Commies (CPI+CPI(M)) 2, VCK 1 and IUML 1. From what I heard Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (Liberation Panthers party) seems to have put in very aggressive conditions for the support given by them. Shri. Pappu Ghandi also had attended the oath taking ceremony.

Slight correction Congis 5 + Commies - 4 + VCK - 2 + IUML - 2. Vijay party technically has 106 seats (calculating for speaker) and needed 11 additional seals to make the majority number (117). Hence it is a fragile coalition. So may stay alive for 6 months until Congis decide to jump ship. It is surprising Pappu broke the tradition of not going for a vacation after elections. Perhaps Kerala and TN is giving him some confidence.

[Vayutuvan]

Explosives scare near PM Modi event venue on Bengaluru outskirts, suspect in custody
...

Suspect's name not released, it seems. So we can be sure the suspect was trying to protest "peace"fully.

[arshyam]

Explosives scare near PM Modi event venue on Bengaluru outskirts, suspect in custody

The explosives were found near an ashram close to Kagalipura, around 3 kilometres away from the main venue where the Prime Minister was scheduled to attend a programme later in the day.

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/g ... 2026-05-10

Ashram near Kaggalipura - refers to Art of Living - ?

[chetak]

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/g ... 2026-05-10

Ashram near Kaggalipura - refers to Art of Living - ?

you got it right, arshyam ji.

[arshyam]

Ashram near Kaggalipura - refers to Art of Living - ?

you got it right, arshyam ji.

Thanks saar. I hope AoL improves their security. As an ashram, they want to keep things simple so devotees could come in with little hassle. But nefarious interests abound.

[arshyam]

Dileep chetta had mentioned this long ago - people in KL want their local rep to be able to fix their day-to-day issues, and that is a big factor in their voting decisions.

In a way, Dileep and you are right. Kerala people do expect their elected reps (at the state or local level) to be able to resolve their problems. Religion etc comes after that (especially for Hindus and to an extent Christians as well). And that is where some of the BJP leaders of the state abysmally fail. They focus on pure "Hindu Khatre mein hein" type claims, over-emphasising only on religion. That will not click well. And those leaders are also not capable to get the day-to-day issues of people resolved. I am sure if some kind of religious riots happens Keralaites would then start "demanding" BJP or RSS to help them; but the state is not in that situation at present. And so some of the campaign strategies of BJP will get called out as "Fear/Hate mongering".

As the joke goes, the BJP has plenty of leaders, but not many workers.

Interactions with a few kartyakartas indicate that they are aware of these shortcomings, but don't have the knowledge, experience and resources to address these issues. Some training is necessary, followed by day-to-day work till they get it right. But they seem to spend most of their time in meetings, which, going by the results, is clearly not that productive. I hope some course correction happens - the next election is the 2029 GE, giving them a solid 3 years to focus on the basics and rebuilding things from the ground up.

[Vayutuvan]

^ Americanism goes like this: Too many chiefs no Indians (obviously racist but …)

[chetak]

you got it right, arshyam ji.

Thanks saar. I hope AoL improves their security. As an ashram, they want to keep things simple so devotees could come in with little hassle. But nefarious interests abound.

arshyam ji,

two gelatine sticks in a bag were found near the tataguni estate

a passer-by called it in

we have to wait and see whose responsibility was it to secure this area

[chetak]

^ Americanism goes like this: Too many chiefs no Indians (obviously racist but …)

Vayutuvan ji,


the Indian version: all raja, no praja

[KL Dubey]

On TN: some posters wax eloquent on the "hindu-ness" of TN.

As I said before, this brand of hinduism is culturally rich no doubt - but it does not include proper values of Dharma and cultural unity (perhaps due to the misinformation and fake propaganda of "dravidian" parties over decades). People do not understand external threats and seem oblivious to internal threats (e.g., X-men with conversion agenda).

For this reason, for all the "hindu-ness" of TN, the stark choice today in that state is either the "dravidian" parties that want to "eradicate sanatana dharma" or a guy named Joseph inserted by external forces as a Kejriwal-like plant. Such hindu-ness is simply not in hindu interest.

TN has stayed "hindu" because northern parts of the country took the hits and sacrificed millions of lives during centuries of invasions. Now I say, its damn time to return the favor and stop conversion/X-men from proliferating using TN as a base. A similar situation is there in KL, but I see the situation there improving rather dramatically.

You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. Perhaps stick to issues that you are familiar with, if any?

P.S. As Rajiv Malhotra said in the recent Indraprastha conference in Delhi, the left ecosystem does one thing very well: they develop experts in a specific field who go deep in that field and become an authority over time, but also have the discipline to not stray into other domains where their knowledge becomes limited. Something for the nationalist ecosystem to ponder over.

These defensive responses with "Rajiv Malhotra" as crutch - whether on Hindi as a national link language, or lack of understanding of history and culture, or canards like "people want issues fixed" (right, DMK and ADMK were fixing issues for 60 years )....time to call this bluff.

Xtian conversion continues with impunity, while the populace is claimed to be of wonderfully high level of hinduism. A hypocritical narrative is stood up. There is nothing to show for this.

Just drive from trivandrum to TN and you can see the trash dumped by KL commies across the state line. Further, take a drive from Nagarakovil thru Tirunalveli to Madurai (Madhurapuri)...see the abysmal condition of temples and hindu institutions. If you do so, you will feel like we say in Malayalam..."paTTi chantekkyu poyatu polE". Now I myself am highly critical of the situation in KL, but it is a real joke to find TN "apologists" claiming to be part of a "nationalist ecosystem".

[bala]

W. Bengal CM S. Adhikari wasted no time:

1. Hands over BD border fencing to BSF
2. Ayushman Bharat to roll out in W. Bengal
3. Ujjwala 3.0 to be implemented

Link

Meanwhile in TN Vijay meets with opposition Stalin.

What is happening in Keralam, so far no CM and Sateesan is demanding CM or no support to Rahul Gandhi.

[vijayk]

https://x.com/pallavict/status/2053813795693482313

Wow

Annamalai ne ki Vijay ki gazab beizzati

Looks like a few years down the line, when Tamilians will be disillusioned with Dravidian politics & silver screen superstars, they will be ready for this GEM called Annamalai

Was that BJP’s long term plan all along?

[Manish_P]

...
Xtian conversion continues with impunity, while the populace is claimed to be of wonderfully high level of hinduism.
...
Now I myself am highly critical of the situation in KL, but it is a real joke to find TN "apologists" claiming to be part of a "nationalist ecosystem".

KL Dubey ji, please give Joseph sir a decade or so to build up the ecosystem. By that time the hindus might just wake up to realise that the rope is nearer to their necks than they thought and they will try and vote in the messiah tamil equivalent of Hriday Samrat. If they succeed they will expect him to smash the up the ecosystem in true filmy style in no less than a week.. it may so happen that he might not be able to sack the appointees but at least he will transfer them...

So please to keep calm and let everyone carry on.

[Manish_P]

Meanwhile here is Himanta Biswa Sarma on the future of Assam. When, or if, at all we have future Hindu CMs in Keralam and TN they might well have to utter the same line...

[KL Dubey]

...
Xtian conversion continues with impunity, while the populace is claimed to be of wonderfully high level of hinduism.
...
Now I myself am highly critical of the situation in KL, but it is a real joke to find TN "apologists" claiming to be part of a "nationalist ecosystem".

KL Dubey ji, please give Joseph sir a decade or so to build up the ecosystem. By that time the hindus might just wake up to realise that the rope is nearer to their necks than they thought and they will try and vote in the messiah tamil equivalent of Hriday Samrat. If they succeed they will expect him to smash the up the ecosystem in true filmy style in no less than a week.. it may so happen that he might not be able to sack the appointees but at least he will transfer them...

So please to keep calm and let everyone carry on.

(Almost) everybody here is "calm". I have been in these discussions on external forces plants etc in elections for many years/decades. Nothing really new, but what annoys me is that when it comes to TN there is some kind of defensiveness and obfuscation from posters to show that it is somehow a "very special" state, and an exception from any other state of Bharat, and "don't worry, TN is so wonderfully hindu that nobody can even comprehend". I also saw a post complaining about the 2017 demonetization.

Anyway, here is Pradeep Singh today, once again with reliable insight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1wzlBAGXaQ