Statewide and National runup to 2014 General elections

prahaar · Post by **prahaar** » 08 Jul 2013 17:50

Niranji, completely confused. Wasnt there a report that police worried about insufficient security at the site? The conclusions are pretty obvious from your post :-(.

The video by RSN Singh below is most worrying:

All these things indicate a serious situation for our country. A compromised leadership can bring the strongest of nations to its knees. The above video gives some idea about the reason for the confidence that people like Owaisis show.

SwamyG · Post by **SwamyG** » 08 Jul 2013 18:51

http://www.niticentral.com/2013/07/08/o ... 01021.html

Irrespective of whether the two principal parties declare their candidates for the prime ministership in the next elections, the de-facto leaderships are becoming clear. Besides the conflicts of parties and ideologies, the next elections could also be a contest between personalities. The nature of the contest would be more presidential. In the 2009 general election, the Congress and the BJP shared 323 Lok Sabha seats among themselves. This figure is not likely to reduce in the forthcoming elections.
With anti-incumbency working against the Congress, the party’s alliance being in a shambles in several states and the near sweep situation of 2009 in urban India likely to be reversed, the odds are loaded against the Congress. The possible Presidential-type contest between the two emerging personalities will make it worse for the Congress. The possibility of one of the two major parties forging way ahead appears real. And this time it won’t be the Congress.

Guess who wrote the above.....if you cannot, just click maaro

Hari Seldon · Post by **Hari Seldon** » 08 Jul 2013 20:05

SwamyG wrote:http://www.niticentral.com/2013/07/08/o ... 01021.html

For what its worth, he also wrote the following in the same article:

The BJP had won 12 seats in Bihar in the last elections where its alliance has recently suffered a setback. It has an opportunity to improve upon this figure. In Karnataka, the party has to factor in electoral realities rather than internal imbalances.

SwamyG · Post by **SwamyG** » 08 Jul 2013 20:24

Netri kan terapinilum kuttram kutrramae

SwamyG · Post by **SwamyG** » 08 Jul 2013 22:15

Regarding Bodhgaya. Why now? RSN Singh and there was a politician/minister of JD(U) who were questioning Nitish's Pakistan visit and funds from Pakistan to Nitish; wouldn't Nitish be more in control about when these happen? RSN Singh raises some valid points that cannot be dismissed without thorough analysis. If it is vote-bank politics, and then if there is money involved; why would Gaya be targeted now? BJP stands to benefit, no ? Unless INC and Nitish can tie it neatly to BJP/Saffron terror, any vispot now does not suit Nitish/INC.

Clearly the nexus between Indian politicians and IM are out of the CT realm, and there are articles trickling in MSM. Looks like INC and these outfits are playing/toying with each and using each other to spearhead their own agenda. Just like how Rajahs/Maharajas have some times colluded with outside invaders to thwart local competition.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 09 Jul 2013 02:23

Ind Express:

Mamata sees ploy to distrub regional parties

Slamming the Centre and its agencies for failing to avert bomb blasts in the states, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today wondered whether there is a 'gameplan' to disturb them and the regional parties ahead of the Lok Sabha polls.

"What our central government is doing? What about central agencies who usually interfere in state business but do not take care of safety and security of our people and country?" Banerjee questioned in a Facebook post.

"Is it a game plan, before Lok Sabha election to disturb states, regional parties and also to plan to murder some political leaders, so that nobody can raise the voice of people in future? ... Or is it a blame game to avoid responsibility and to finish regional political parties who are not dependent on UPA?" she said.

Nine blasts rocked the temple town of Bodh Gaya in Bihar today and left two monks injured.

Banerjee said in the situation she felt ashamed as a citizen.

"I am shocked to know about the sad incident of bomb blasts at Bodh Gaya today. I do not know why recently a series of such incidents are taking place in a regular cycle – first at Chhatisgarh where many innocent lives were lost, then at Jharkhand where innocent lives of SP and officials were lost," she said.

She wondered which state would be the next target of the extremists.

"Today it has happened in Bihar. Which one is the target for tomorrow - West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh or Odisha?" Banerjee asked.

SwamyG · Post by **SwamyG** » 09 Jul 2013 02:39

This cartoon sums up Mamta, courtesy Manoj @ NitiCentral
She is another one of those leaders, not to be trusted. Far more unpredictable, eccentric, autocratic, erratic, lunatic than JJ. And she blames INC, wah re wah.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 09 Jul 2013 02:48

Maybe shes something we dont see yet?
All those states mentioned have UPA non-pasand folks as leaders or leaders in waiting.

Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha. Interestingly she doesnt think TN will have any such problems.

I think there could be an IM(low) or Naxal(high) strike which takes out the opposition leadership in those states.
Lots of crocodile tears will be shed and NIA rushed in to manage the outrage. Couple of borderline INC guys will be also sacrificed.

Only AP has INC in power so could be a Naxal strike on TDP.

niran · Post by **niran** » 09 Jul 2013 08:35

The Bihar/ISI link goes deep, there are very many moojaaheers from Bihar these are considered low caste by mooojaaheers from other regions(yeah! mujlims have caste system too and it shocked and surprised even Swami Vivekananda) during late seventies and early eighties IG tried and succeeded to some extent
in cutting off that link it was revived through (please to be sitting down and hold on to something tight)Shotgun Sinha, he along with his wife and kids were guests of jarnail jiaulhaq for a fortnight
fortunately for Bharat IG hated them roachese so Shotgun was refused entry into kangress but half a decade later it is well known that the Yadavs were bought by ISI dollah one yadav until recent times was in NDA Nitko is an extension of that link.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 09 Jul 2013 21:22

A cartoon on state of affairs in Bihar

gpati · Post by **gpati** » 10 Jul 2013 05:47

Upcoming Panchayat elections in Andhra Pradesh are revolving around temples, according to one Telugu media outlet, ABN-Andhrajyothy. Many villages have taken resolution to elect candidates who are going to build new temples or renovate the existing ones, irrespective of the party affiliations. Any one who defies the resolution will be expelled from the said villages.

krishnan · Post by **krishnan** » 10 Jul 2013 13:58

Special havans to "bless Jayalalitha as the next prime minister of India" are being organised on Friday in 66 temples across Tamil Nadu by leaders of the All India Ann Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam.
Click here!

Why now? Because the party cadres are expecting Lok Sabha elections to be held any time this year.

Why Friday? Because it is the birth star (magam in Tamil) of the Tamil Nadu chief minister that day.

Why 66 temples? Because Jayalalitha will turn 66 in February next year, by which time the party hopes she will become the prime minister.

O Panneerselvam, the state finance minister, is the key coordinator for the secret havans.

The AIADMK headquarters has issued advisories to district secretaries to print and distribute invitation cards and put up street corner banners and posters in front of the temples so that the public can know of the havans.

Apart from the special puja, 6600 people will be given annadhanam or free lunch in the temples.

When did the AIADMK start such havans?

From February 2013, the 66th birthday of Jayalalitha. Since then the party’s district secretaries have been holding havans in secret at many temples.

Who began this ceremony? Paul Hector Pandian, a former speaker of the Tamil Nadu assembly who told a party general council meeting that Jayalalitha should now be projected as the next prime minister. “For 15 years you ruled Tamil Nadu, now it is your turn to rule New Delhi,” he said.

There is also a catchy slogan coined for the occasion, by none other than Jayalalitha herself: ‘Naalai Namadhe, Naarpadhum Namadhe’. Rendered in English it means, ‘The future is ours, 40 is ours’ (referring to the 40 Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu and Puduchery combined).

Party insiders say that Panneerselvam and other ministers, MPs and MLAs will be in attendance at the various havans on Friday.

Aditya_V · Post by **Aditya_V** » 10 Jul 2013 15:14

The article seems dubious, the word "HAVAN" is pretty much unheard of in TN.

There will be always prayers and wishes, but no one really in TN is expecting JJ to bee PM

Muppalla · Post by **Muppalla** » 10 Jul 2013 15:18

gpati wrote:Upcoming Panchayat elections in Andhra Pradesh are revolving around temples, according to one Telugu media outlet, ABN-Andhrajyothy. Many villages have taken resolution to elect candidates who are going to build new temples or renovate the existing ones, irrespective of the party affiliations. Any one who defies the resolution will be expelled from the said villages.

Cool. Good news.

krishnan · Post by **krishnan** » 10 Jul 2013 16:31

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 001730.cms

NEW DELHI: BJP has decided to induct Janata Dal leader Subramanian Swamy into the party. The decision has been formalized at the party's parliamentary board meeting on Thursday, July 4, 2013, with Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi proposing the move and most leaders including party veteran L K Advani supporting it.

Party chief Rajnath Singh however prefers to wait for his predecessor and former party chief Nitin Gadkari, who is abroaf at present, to be back on July 8, before taking a final call on the matter. Singh is learnt to have told the parliamentary board on Thursday that one should finalise the matter after Gadkari's return. It was during Gadkari's regime that Swamy's Janata Dal had joined the NDA, about a year ago, but Swamy has been keen to merge with the BJP for a while.

hanumadu · Post by **hanumadu** » 10 Jul 2013 16:49

^^I am not sure about this. He is a loose mouth.

abhik · Post by **abhik** » 10 Jul 2013 17:59

^^^
How many (potential) seats does he bring in? Zero? With did respect to him, he might be more of an impediment for the future growth or alliance formation in TN. BTW IIRC a few years ago LKA had met with Rajnikanth and had reportedly offered him to join the party

RoyG · Post by **RoyG** » 10 Jul 2013 18:08

I'm not sure what Swamy has to offer. All he does is take up big cases and loses all of them. Suspicious if you ask me.

Sushupti · Post by **Sushupti** » 10 Jul 2013 18:14

Sushupti · Post by **Sushupti** » 10 Jul 2013 18:18

Here Sucheta Dalal challenging Anjali Damania about Kejriwal meeting Rahul Bajaj for tv channel and Anjali Damania gives no answer but some emotional rants.

https://twitter.com/suchetadalal/status ... 7557170176

jamwal · Post by **jamwal** » 10 Jul 2013 21:35

Is it real ?

SC landmark judgement: Convicted MPs, MLAs must go

In a landmark judgement, the Supreme Court on Wednesday has struck down a section of Representation of the People Act that allows a convicted lawmaker to remain in office while there are still cases pending against them.

“The only question is about the vires of section 8(4) of the Representation of the People Act (RPA) and we hold that it is ultra vires and that the disqualification takes place from the date of conviction,” a bench of justices A K Patnaik and S J Mukhopadhaya said.

In effect, what the Supreme Court order says is that the disqualification of an MP or MLA will come into effect immediately after the representative is convicted by any court.

The SC order also says that the representative cannot contest elections again and a representative cannot cast his vote from jail, under any circumstances.

However, the court said this order will not have a retrospective effect so that those who have filed appeals in cases pending against them will not be affected.

Earlier, the Centre defended an exception carved out to protect convicted MPs and MLAs from disqualification on the ground that their removal would destabilise governments surviving on a “razor edge thin majority”.

The provision of RPA says that a lawmaker cannot be disqualified in the event of his conviction in a criminal case if he or she files an appeal in the higher court.

jamwal · Post by **jamwal** » 10 Jul 2013 22:43

fanne · Post by **fanne** » 10 Jul 2013 23:16

So if Modi can be put on a farce and convicted for 365.16*2 days, he is out of the race?

disha · Post by **disha** » 11 Jul 2013 00:24

RoyG wrote:I'm not sure what Swamy has to offer. All he does is take up big cases and loses all of them. Suspicious if you ask me.

I think Coal Scam was given lot of visibility by SSwamy., and what brought out was the SC stand on CBI being caged parrot. Exposing the coal scam to that point itself is worth his weight in silver.

Now if I were heading a party, I would want a legal stormtrooper in my camp to demolish or spread panic in the opposition in various ways. So all effort is not only about winning a single seat, but how making the opponents loose more seats! Sometimes you come on top when the opponents disintegrate.

disha · Post by **disha** » 11 Jul 2013 00:26

fanne wrote:So if Modi can be put on a farce and convicted for 365.16*2 days, he is out of the race?

No a court conviction., hence all the rona-dhona to corner Modi into a conviction. It will be great odds to be then acquited by higher courts. You are convicted and then you are tarnished.

I still will welcome it, since this can be used to bring the politicos in the ambit of law, currently they are working above law.

Agnimitra · Post by **Agnimitra** » 11 Jul 2013 00:59

Sadanand Dhume tweeted that this is a self-goal:

BJP to induct Subramanian Swamy into party

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 11 Jul 2013 01:04

Its time to corral all the nationalist forces.

SS told Bay Area members last year itself that as the time approaches for elections he would join up and not be a separate entity.

Vikas · Post by **Vikas** » 11 Jul 2013 04:00

Not everyone in the party is to win votes. Some provide intellectual gravitas to the party.
For that matter Arun Jaitley, Jethmalani (now fired from BJP) and Meenaxi Lekhi can hardly be called vote catchers.
Same for everyone in the congress.

muraliravi · Post by **muraliravi** » 11 Jul 2013 06:32

There has been some discussion on this thread on Maharashtra. Let me provide a data point (i am not sure why folks think NDA wont do well in Maharashtra). Here is the ABP news survey just done about 45 days ago.

http://www.newsbullet.in/india/34-more/ ... :%20Survey

#ABP News: In Maharashtra, UPA suffering major reverse; Cong-NCP winning only 16 seats (25 in 2009) while BJP-Sena win 29 seats (20 in 2009)

#ABP News-Nielsen Survey for Lok Sabha - 33,408 perspective voters surveyed across 151 Lok Sabha seats

@abpnewstv Political analysts predict that Congress NCP will suffer very badly and may get only 10 seats.Corruption & Gavit issue will hurt

ABP News ‏@abpnewstv
Maharashtra: Cong winning 12 seats; NCP 4; BJP 17; Shivsena 12

ABP News ‏@abpnewstv 1h
Maharashtra: MNS seen opening their Lok Sabha account with 1 seat

I watched that survey video too. This is the scenario if MNS fights alone. I am sure worst case he will provide post poll support (every seat matters). RPI also gets 2 seats. So NDA goes from 20 to 32.

The same exact/close enuf numbers were there even in AAJ Tak or Headlines Today survey.

So I am not sure why were think Maharashtra is a weak spot this time for NDA. The only pointer in that direction is the feku survey that said that pappu is very popular in western india while modi is weak there, and modi is very popular in south. So pappu has more votes than modi in western india, I would like to ask that survey what their sample size is. Even if they had said Mumbai, I MAY have believed it, but western india, rahul more popular than modi give me a break (i think it was week survey).

Sushupti · Post by **Sushupti** » 11 Jul 2013 07:02

Shiv Sena helped Congress in Sangli elections, says NCP

http://in.news.yahoo.com/shiv-sena-help ... 00529.html

BhairavP · Post by **BhairavP** » 11 Jul 2013 07:39

Haha! Pappu in Mumbai? At least in the middle, upper-middle classes, NaMO will win out. Constituencies where Gujjus are a significant presence will see them coming out and voting - Mumbai South, North et.al, and Maharashtrian majority localities - e.g. South-Central will vote for the BJP/SS candidate - there is a significant campaign ongoing to get them out and vote, and not just take a holiday on voting day.
All this assuming MaanSay does not cut into the votes like last time, of course.

SwamyG · Post by **SwamyG** » 11 Jul 2013 08:12

Agnimitra wrote:Sadanand Dhume tweeted that this is a self-goal:

BJP to induct Subramanian Swamy into party

A bad move. He is a loose canon and unreliable. There are people who ought to be kept at an arms length. Just because the Sun and the Moon are useful, one cannot bring them into the house. Some people have to be kept outside the house. A chowkidar is good at the gate, one cannot give the almariah keys to him.
http://www.rediff.com/news/1998/mar/17sswamy.htm

And therein lies the real danger Dr Swamy poses to his enemies -- his ability to dig up the dirt, thanks to a largely helpful bureaucracy. This could explain, too, why the Bharatiya Janata Party, last week, showed itself determined to turn down Jayalalitha's demand that Dr Swamy be made a part of the Vajpayee Cabinet -- the last thing you need is to have a 'friend' accumulating evidence which will, sooner or later, be turned against you

The BJP's reluctance to break bread with Dr Swamy owes, too, to perhaps the one political consistency in a largely inconsistent career -- Subramanian Swamy has been, and remains, a BJP-hater.

Sample sound-bites from the man give an indicator of his mindset:

"I think the BJP is a joke. It is a party of semi-literates, and has fascist tendencies. Such a party can never have real roots in India because Hinduism is the antithesis of fascism." This, in April 1991.

"The RSS is an anti-national organisation. The quicker it is disintegrated, the better for India. Today the RSS and BJP are thoroughly marginalised, I do not rate them very highly." This, too, in the same period.

"How did the BJP give Enron a clearance? The 13 days Vajpayee was prime minister, he only cleared that one project. Why?... Why do they drink Coca-Cola in their working committee meetings, and not nimbu-paani?" -- this, as late as February 1998, BJP-AIADMK alliance was announced, in an interview to Shobha Warrier of Rediff.

All of which, coupled with the contretemps involving Vajpayee, explains the BJP's determination that it would rather not form a government, than do so at the cost of accomodating Dr Swamy in the Cabinet.

Examine the Swamy flip-flops down the years, and "immoral" is an adjective that springs to mind.

What drives the man?

A sheer spirit of freewheeling anarchy, or is there something more to it?

One possible answer probably lurks in a famous Swamy sound-bite, of 1979 vintage: "I have a feeling of destiny. I know in ten years time I will be prime minister."

Exactly ten years later, Dr Swamy was asked to give his personal progress report. "That ambition remains, nothing has gone wrong with it. I am within striking distance of that ambition. I am well educated, I am known all over the country, I am more capable than most people around, all I need is a vote bank and an organisation."

SwamyG · Post by **SwamyG** » 11 Jul 2013 08:36

http://www.rediff.com/news/1999/apr/17swamy.htm. This was in 1999.

Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy credited the outcome of the confidence vote to "three great ladies" -- Sonia Gandhi, J Jayalalitha and Mayawati -- describing them as Lakshmi, Saraswati and Durga.

His role in bringing down Vajpayee's government : http://www.frontline.in/navigation/?typ ... 090180.htm

Sonia Gandhi lent a helping hand. Had she not turned up for the tea party that I hosted, the entire plan would have collapsed. But despite the advice of people close to her, she kept her own counsel and acted

SwamyG · Post by **SwamyG** » 11 Jul 2013 08:44

Look what he wrote about RSS and BJP in 2000
http://www.frontline.in/navigation/?typ ... 020950.htm

Today the creeping fascism of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is coming upon us not as gradually as imperialism did, nor as suddenly as did the Emergency. Its spread is being calibrated adroitly by seven faceless men of the RSS, the RSS "high comma nd". We barely feel it. Some yesteryear civil libertyites such as Arun Shourie have been co-opted. Others are being wooed or chased

Christians are being targeted by the front organisations of the RSS in order to terrorise and ghetto-ise all minorities. Since Osama bin Laden is stalking the Hindustan peninsula with his millions of dollars and narcotics, for the wily and cautious RSS. Christians are an easy target because there are no Christian terrorists to retaliate. As the period of the Emergency clearly demonstrated, the RSS is astute enough to know when to hunt with the hounds and when to run with the hares. They are smarter than the German fascists in this respect.

The RSS game plan is thus ready. Only the D-Day for the blitzkrieg is to be determined. Since it appears that the RSS has already been generating momentum on religious fundamentalist issues (for example, Gujarat's Ram temple) and raised the fanatical emo tional temperature (chasing of Christian missionaries), my guess is that this campaign will be taken to a fever pitch by November 9, 2001 (the 1986 date for shilanyas) and then mid-term elections will be called.

Prime Minister Vajpayee will as usual waffle and wobble, but he will not resist. That is his nature; he is a mask for the RSS, as Commissar Govindacharya had once said.

Of course, the good news is that the game plan can fail. I live on the hope that in India, no well-laid plan ever works. India, after all, is a functioning anarchy. That has been the undoing of every attempt to straitjacket its society. That is why we ar e still the longest continuing unbroken civilisation of over 10,000 years. The RSS is, luckily, our counter-culture. The vibrations of Mother India will, I hope, be its undoing.

His 'maverickness' in display. He was once an admirer of Sonia Gandhi: http://www.sangam.org/NEWSEXTRA/Swamy8_3_01.htm

Sachin · Post by **Sachin** » 11 Jul 2013 09:02

SC has given an order on politicians sentenced for their criminal offences have to step down from their office, or cannot contest elections. They become disqualified the day any court convicts them.
MPs, MLAs to be disqualified on date of criminal conviction (The Hindu).
What will be the impact of this rule especially in the coming elections? In a sham democracy like ours, a party with enough clout can ensure that some Sessions court or the other can sentence the major opposition leaders and scuttle their election plans. As it is many MLAs and MPs have some or the other criminal charges against them.

Sushupti · Post by **Sushupti** » 11 Jul 2013 09:46

Even Facebook has not been spared by Congress. Don't miss Tehseen Poonawala (some say he is the best candidate for Karan Johar's boyfriend)

Is Gehlot buying likes for his Facebook page?

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/video/asho ... 90694.html

disha · Post by **disha** » 11 Jul 2013 10:01

Sachin wrote:SC has given an order on politicians sentenced for their criminal offences have to step down from their office, or cannot contest elections. They become disqualified the day any court convicts them.
MPs, MLAs to be disqualified on date of criminal conviction (The Hindu).
What will be the impact of this rule especially in the coming elections? In a sham democracy like ours, a party with enough clout can ensure that some Sessions court or the other can sentence the major opposition leaders and scuttle their election plans. As it is many MLAs and MPs have some or the other criminal charges against them.

And will the convicted politician now out of job sit quiet?

Sachin · Post by **Sachin** » 11 Jul 2013 10:55

disha wrote:And will the convicted politician now out of job sit quiet?

Off course not. But such a scheme would allow selective targeting of a few individuals and render them useless for some time. Eg: A good leader from an opposition party has been accused for leading a riot and public property destruction which happened a year back. He now contests for elections. A month before the elections, the state police fast tracks the case and puts up a case in the court. The court finds this chap guilty and sentences him. One leader who had good chances is now sidelined, and the party will now have to find another individual who is comparatively "clean". The ruling regime has lesser problems because they have the state police in their control, who can be told to "go slow" in cases involving them.

merlin · Post by **merlin** » 11 Jul 2013 11:50

Yes, with the dice heavily loaded in INC's favour, to me, its very suspicious that SC has acted in this way.

disha · Post by **disha** » 11 Jul 2013 12:12

Sachin wrote:
disha wrote:And will the convicted politician now out of job sit quiet?
Off course not. But such a scheme would allow selective targeting of a few individuals and render them useless for some time. Eg: A good leader from an opposition party has been accused for leading a riot and public property destruction which happened a year back. He now contests for elections. A month before the elections, the state police fast tracks the case and puts up a case in the court. The court finds this chap guilty and sentences him. One leader who had good chances is now sidelined, and the party will now have to find another individual who is comparatively "clean". The ruling regime has lesser problems because they have the state police in their control, who can be told to "go slow" in cases involving them.

The key in the above is "court finds the chap guilty and sentences him" that is crime leading to conviction. Let us take a real case at this moment - of Gulbarg Massacre Conspiracy. Lot of the case depends on statements made on statements of others, that is double jeapordy. It is not even a witness. Further there should be forensic evidence that should be water tight, the current evidence actually goes into conspiracy theory. So much so that the SIT set up to investigate the case ends up defending its own report exonerating the politician.

One has to have some faith on the judge to deliver a proper judgement based on forensic evidence. In case there is no water-tight evidence and the judge relies on conspiracy theory, then we are into kangaroo courts (it happens) which if wholesale then there is no saving us.

Note, Maya Kodnani was identified by witnesses, but it was her call records that provided for water tight corroboration. So accusation was indeed backed by forensic evidence.

Riots are very difficult to prove. Criminal cases against politicos for bribery, extortion are difficult. However base criminal cases like murder, rape etc are easy (unless the entire setup is conspiring). There is a role for media here too, to actually go after real cases and not become a lapdog. Classic is Bhanwari Devi case and the recent Raghav'ji' case. If Raghav's career is destroyed on conviction of sodomy, so be it.

Yes, the ruling will be misused. Some right careers will be destroyed as well, overall though - the churn has to happen. So the situation is half-glass full, that is there is hope and then there is fear. I am trying to be optimistic, at least the politicos are in the ambit of law.

BTW, same should go for Journos and NGOs., currently they are operating above law - for example Teesta digging up graves is punishable by law (she actually destroyed evidence)., and I think min. is 10 years RI. But she gets Padma Shri.