Narendra Modi vs the Dynasty: Contrasting Ideas of India

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 06 May 2014 02:21

RajeshA, Anantha's remarks are about Ornab's about turn. Not about the lame duck UPA govt.

RajeshA · Post by **RajeshA** » 06 May 2014 02:27

ramana wrote:RajeshA, Anantha's remarks are about Ornab's about turn. Not about the lame duck UPA govt.

Ornob's about turn happened as Congress told him to drop the matter, as they were themselves going to drop it.

SaiK · Post by **SaiK** » 06 May 2014 02:29

how dare you say.. how dare you say...

gandharva · Post by **gandharva** » 06 May 2014 02:36

Did anyone notice the "humble" and devoid of sneer tone of Ashraf Khhurshid on NDTV?

Prem · Post by **Prem** » 06 May 2014 02:42

vivek.rao wrote:
Anantha wrote:Modi: A gang of 2000 is swindling the nation, I will stop it
WOW! Let the Delhi looting club sweat if they are in that list

Isharo Isharo Mey Dienasty Ko heart attack Dene Wale
Batta , Yeh Hunnar Tumne Seekha kanha Sey ?
Billion Indians Pey Jadddo Chalana
Battah Modi Man Sekkha Hai Tumne Kanha Sey ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxZyRkqo0r0

IndraD · Post by **IndraD** » 06 May 2014 03:09

In Jan I was massively dhoti shivering that Khujli is going to disturb Modi's chance big time, but luckily that gadha resigned and hot exposed fully. Modi outsmarted every one big time.

Yayavar · Post by **Yayavar** » 06 May 2014 03:13

hey! local AAP supporters now say..dont want to argue. I say no argument at all...we know

Prasad · Post by **Prasad** » 06 May 2014 03:24

Listening to NaMo's amethi speech, he sounds very hoarse. How many more rallies/speeches does this man have?! Enough already. Hope he takes care of himself after voting is done and until election results are out. It must be draining as hell.

gandharva · Post by **gandharva** » 06 May 2014 03:29

Much mellowed down Khrushit

http://ibnlive.in.com/videos/469815/ind ... desai.html

Anantha · Post by **Anantha** » 06 May 2014 03:35

Rajesh, Ramana
I guess I did not make myself clear. I am generally not good in English, I assume people read my mind, it has been the complaint of people around me.

Arnab used to give fair time to everyone before. In the last 2-3 weeks he has completely become anti BJP and pro Gandhi family. When pappu was doing bad, and Piyakkad entered the fray he changed his stance to become completely anti BJP.
Madhu Kishwar and others have indicated that cash transferred hands between the family and Times now, for him to go completely bonkers. In the last two weeks he has outdone Burka, Turddesai and his cat 5 moron wife.

RajeshA · Post by **RajeshA** » 06 May 2014 03:39

Some severe tummy problems for Seculars

Published on May 5, 2014
By Rajshree Chandra
Against complacency: Indian Express

Varshney lays out three political arguments: inner truths or androoni sach, institutional approach or sansthayik vichardhaara, and weak institutions or kamzor sansthayen. Varshney lays out three political arguments: inner truths or androoni sach, institutional approach or sansthayik vichardhaara, and weak institutions or kamzor sansthayen.

There are enough systemic and institutional tools available to any regime that are entirely dependent on how malignant the executive allows them to become.

Ashutosh Varshney begins his piece, ‘Modi, on balance’ (IE, April 29), by stating that he fundamentally disagrees with polarised views on Modi, and that there may not be reason enough to be either deeply anxious or over exuberant. He says, “the discipline of political science, which I have taught for two decades, fundamentally disagrees with this view”.

As a student of political science, I have often found myself constrained by its continued exuberance about “structural functional” theories.

These regard a political system to be a sum total of structures (institutions), their functions, the ability of democratic institutions to process levels of mobilisations and demands that arise from society in general.

Varshney lays out three political arguments: inner truths or androoni sach, institutional approach or sansthayik vichardhaara, and weak institutions or kamzor sansthayen.

All three arguments address what op-ed columns routinely conflate as the “unsubstantiated paranoia” that India will become a fascist state or, as in this piece, “India will become a greater Gujarat”. The three reasons given by Varshney why this will not be the case is essentially because a political leader has to work “with and through institutions”; that the “inner truths”, the political and ideological dispensations of a leader like Modi — for instance, his and his party’s almost symbiotic RSS connections, their Hindu nationalist ideology — will always get tamed through institutional checks and balances. Even if we were to argue that some institutions are weak, Varshney points out that it is only the institutions directly under the executive that are weak. The ones outside of it — the Supreme Court, EC, Parliament and the powerful CAG — will prevent a lapse into authoritarian leadership of any kind.

But, there are three aspects of parliamentary democracy that Varshney ignores. First, the Indian executive is a parliamentary executive and it has the potential to exercise great influence over the legislative process, particularly if the party in power has a working majority. The outcome of legislative activity is then dependent on the political will, dispensations and ideologies of the government. There is enough reason to believe that, while the plank of developmentalism might displace the earlier welfarist orientation, the aggressive nationalist posturing might lead to an intensification of the already harsh terrain of anti-terror, sedition, censorship laws that may find opportune extensions into dissent management.

Who is to say that the government-in-waiting will not draw from the climate of aggressive nationalist posturing and not enact more dissent management laws? A second point that Varshney ignores is the role of the executive. It is not just the weakness of the institutions under executive control that is a problem; it is also the implementational role of the executive. There are enough systemic and institutional tools available to any regime — Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, Section 295, 124A IPC, Official Secrets Act, Cinematograph Act — that are entirely dependent on how malignant the executive allows them to become. Importantly, you don’t even need the disruption of institutions to achieve these. The institutional framework itself has the potential to yield space for these trends.

A third aspect Varshney disregards is that institutions in a democracy function within a culture of politics. It is this culture that propels them to function either maximally or minimally within the same institutional architecture. For institutions to function maximally so as to expand the substantive content of democracy, they need to be supported by a democratic political culture. In its absence, the parliamentary system may endure, but a political culture that allows for dissent and “talking back” will not.

Too much focus is being placed on what is being said in election rallies — how overt communal mobilisation is not taking place, how the “temple” word is seldom used except by the fringe elements, how Modi’s rhetoric has been forced to be sanitised, thanks to the institutional strength of electoral politics. Such a focus detracts attention from what was famously stated by Michel Foucault, “but what is being said in what is being said?” It detracts attention from all those elements of political culture that have an indeterminate existence in free speech, free expression, women’s freedoms and several uncounted democratic etiquettes that do not want to be hostage to a homogenised idea of Indian/ majoritarian/ Hindu culture.

Political rhetoric is as much defined by what is being said as by what is not being said. One might argue, as does Varshney in his earlier pieces, that the part omitted from Modi’s rhetoric is a measure of the institutional success of democracy, the institutions of elections being one of the taming agents. Any study of language or signs needs to take into account not just what is audible and visible, but also what is latent and obscured.

It is both premature, and in a sense ahistorical, to see these speech acts as inaugurating an enduring centrist shift in Modi’s ruling stance. It is entirely plausible that the shift in the deployed rhetoric could well be a strategic position of manoeuvre, and that it is not really a shift but a masquerade. No analysis that augurs the future can disregard the core ideology and culture that defines the BJP.

Whether it is the long history of essentialist and gendered invocations of bhartiyata, sanskriti or Hindutva, they evoke images, threats and perceptions of exclusions.

One might argue that there will always be dissenting opinions in every regime and that this dissension is not peculiar to Modi. However, the key issue is not the presence of dissent but the threat the dissenting parties perceive and expect under Modi and his BJP. To say modes of handling this dissent will get more democratised is to ignore the space that institutions have within them for subverting democratic procedures. We have a lot to worry about, Professor Varshney: not just the caution you choose of how fringe elements are tackled by the BJP once, and if, it comes to power.

The writer is a post doctoral fellow at Centre for Policy Research, Delhi

Does the Bharatiyata thread make people nervous?

Kati · Post by **Kati** » 06 May 2014 03:44

‘Deceit’ and ‘loot’ on Modi lips
RADHIKA RAMASESHAN. The Telegraph, Kolkata, May 6, 2014

Dulapur Khurd (Amethi), May 5: Narendra Modi today forayed into Rahul Gandhi’s constituency and did what no BJP leader had done before: smear the Gandhis on their home turf unmindful of political etiquette.

He put Amethi among the most backward constituencies, accused Rahul and Sonia Gandhi of “deceiving” and “looting” the country, and tore into Priyanka Gandhi’s response of “Who?” to a reporter’s query on BJP candidate Smriti Irani yesterday.

The crowd seemed to lap it up, often chorusing a missing word as Modi halted suggestively.

So far, the Gandhis have enjoyed so elevated a status in Rae Bareli and Amethi that rival parties often refrained from contesting (as the Samajwadi Party has done this time) or ran tepid campaigns without the participation of heavyweights.

Modi breached the unwritten norms, ripping into Sonia for “deceiving” Amethi and India to “nurture her son’s political career”.

“For 10 years, the mother underwent hardships to nurture her son’s political career…. But what happened?” Modi asked. The crowd screamed: “They looted us.”

“All these years,” Modi went on, “the mother-son duo looted and deceived the country in the name of the poor.”

He introduced Smriti as his “younger sister” and a Rajya Sabha MP from Gujarat.

“I assigned her the most backward district in Gujarat to use her MP funds. I can proudly say that in a short time, she has turned it around. I thought that this model of development must be used in another backward area. For days I mentally ran through a list of backward places and discovered….” The crowd chorused: “Amethi.”

He tried to turn against Rahul the Congress vice-president’s allegation that Modi was pursuing the “politics of anger”.

“A nasty, undisclosed truth will have to be told about the family. Are you prepared to stomach it?” Modi asked. The crowd hollered: “Yes.”

Modi referred to how Rajiv Gandhi had “publicly shouted” at the then Andhra chief minister (see chart). He alleged that Sonia had “kicked out” her predecessor as party chief, Sitaram Kesri, “in a fit of rage” and “left him to perish on the footpath”.

Former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao was “denied dignity in death because he had challenged the Gandhis”.

Modi then added a context: Kesri was targeted because he was from a most backward caste (like Modi, apparently).

As for Priyanka’s dismissal of Smriti, Modi rolled his eyes and said: “Look at the Congress’s ego. This leader said, ‘Smriti who?’ You people think you belong to a royal family.”

He referred to the Gandhis’ condemnation of his recent remark that drew on a Kargil martyr’s twist to a cola ad: “Yeh dil maange more.”

“Yes, I want more,” Modi said. “Because Madam Soniaji, your royal family has left poor people like us with no choice but to ask.”

Then came the punch line: “But Madam, we are only asking, we are not looting.”

Which is better, to loot or to ask, Modi asked. The chorused reply: “To ask.”
It seemed the crowd — numbering more than two lakh, according to the police — couldn’t ask for more.

Prasad · Post by **Prasad** » 06 May 2014 04:03

Interesting that NaMo says mulayam and mayawati's mla's will work with smriti irani to bring development to amethi if namo becomes the pm. Divide and conquer the 'secular' combination? Dangling a carrot to both of them to fall in line?

Also, is this the first time NaMo referred to his own caste?

James B · Post by **James B** » 06 May 2014 04:11

Picture from a drone of Amethi Rally before the beginning of the rally.

Traffic going towards the Rally

Image Courtesy: Rahul Kanwal fo Headline Today

James B · Post by **James B** » 06 May 2014 04:16

Modi has shot so many birds in his Amethi Rally with elections in several states on May 7th.

1) Mention of T Anjiah & PVNR is made keeping in mind elections in seemandhra region of AP.

2) Referring to his & Sitaram kesri's backward status keeping in mind the OBC vote in UP.

3) And finally tearing into La Famiglia & thus striking at the roots of Congress.

James B · Post by **James B** » 06 May 2014 04:26

Why Modi stepped on Rahul turf

The decision to have Narendra Modi campaign in Amethi was taken four days ago, once he and the BJP brass were confident that they had levelled the once uneven playing field.

Modi’s political confidant Amit Shah, the general secretary in charge of Uttar Pradesh, came for a quick reconnaissance last week, met the Amethi office-bearers as well as grassroots workers and returned with the sense that party candidate Smriti Irani had managed to revitalise a moribund organisation.

The BJP had been a bit of a shrinking violet in Rae Bareli and Amethi, wondering if it was prudent to challenge the Gandhis in their fiefs. It had won Amethi twice, when there was a Janata Party wave, and in 1998, when a former Congress leader, Sanjay Singh, fought on a BJP ticket. He later returned to the Congress.

The BJP’s gut sense this time was that the Gandhis weren’t “invincible”, not after they had forfeited eight of the 10 Assembly seats in Rae Bareli and Amethi in 2012 to the Samajwadi Party.

In 2014, the Samajwadi took a call to not field candidates against Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. “But the vacuum for a political alternative remained,” said Shivkumar Pandey, a BJP official in Sambhai town.

At marketplaces and in interiors of Amethi, BJP offices have sprung up over the past month or so. But a big chunk of the workers are those who recently deserted the Congress, hoping that a BJP win in Amethi and in Delhi would bring them the bounties the Gandhis promised but never delivered in full.

No wonder, at today’s meeting addressed by Modi, each time the BJP’s anthem claiming “Achchhe din aane wale hain” (good days are coming) was played, the youths who made up the bulk of the crowd broke into spontaneous gigs.

On May 16, when the verdict is out, Amethi may end up hogging the headlines instead of India if the mood two days before it voted was a barometer.

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140506/j ... 2gfWGSSyzu

Cosmo_R · Post by **Cosmo_R** » 06 May 2014 04:45

You know, the line about about how he would start building India from Amethi outwards is a master stroke. They've documented the 'before' (now) reality in the video. In 2018, they'll show the 'after'.

They've got some really smart people with the long view on board

Anantha · Post by **Anantha** » 06 May 2014 04:54

James B wrote:Why Modi stepped on Rahul turf

The main reason for breaking that unwritten rule was the FIR that was launched by Gandis hurriedly on Modi, for showing the lotus symbol, on 30th, on sections that carried 2 year jail term.

fanne · Post by **fanne** » 06 May 2014 05:05

My guess would be wrong, but the crowd does not look 2 lakhs from the photo above. Maybe it ahs been taken when the crowd has not fully assembled.

SriKumar · Post by **SriKumar** » 06 May 2014 05:11

viv wrote:wah! what a rally. Thanks for posting that youtube link.
Both speeches are great. Modi is phenomenal; I loved the one where he said ' ..sab diggaj patrakaron ko dhwast kar diya...'

Baap re baap. Quite a speech. For me, THE quote was: Na khaata hoon, naa khaane doonga.
And another one paraphrashing...."....unhone (=the family) vaada thoda, aab nata thodne ka waqt aa gaya hai.

Added later: The whole speech was ex tempore. No tele-prompter nothing....unbelievable speaker.

vivek.rao · Post by **vivek.rao** » 06 May 2014 05:15

IndraD wrote:In Jan I was massively dhoti shivering that Khujli is going to disturb Modi's chance big time, but luckily that gadha resigned and hot exposed fully. Modi outsmarted every one big time.

Yep. Ye gadha Kujli could have stayed in delhi and keep spewing venom on BJP every day as Delhi CM and keep on nautanki like Red Light cars, go to hospitals one day, go to secretariat one day, go to slums one day, go check on water one day.

He could have done so much drama baazi to mislead every one.

But the Gadha could not handle the spot light and started dreaming big and had to get out to do finish the unfinished business of SONIA mata who stopped his transfers.

Anantha · Post by **Anantha** » 06 May 2014 05:15

^ also do not forget 1000's could not reach the venue due to traffic jams due to high traffic in Interstate 10 leading to the farm. It would have been a massive crowd. In addition, reports say Congis paid 500 Rs per individual in Amethi for not attending the rally.

Anantha · Post by **Anantha** » 06 May 2014 05:18

Vivek Raoji
My nukkad chaiwala says between 300- 400 cr were exchanged for Khujli to resign and fight the LS election.
Khujli's story resembles the chicken farmer who tried to get all the golden eggs on the same day. He will more like be exposed by sakshat Diggy.

gandharva · Post by **gandharva** » 06 May 2014 05:22

fanne wrote:My guess would be wrong, but the crowd does not look 2 lakhs from the photo above. Maybe it ahs been taken when the crowd has not fully assembled.

Do you notice height from which it is taken?. One can see curvature of the earth.

fanne · Post by **fanne** » 06 May 2014 05:26

Anyway, it is a meaningless exercise,I was seeing the bold dots as one person; whether BJP wind Amethi or not will be known on 15th. A loss is nothing, but a win will be making of a history!!

Pratyush · Post by **Pratyush** » 06 May 2014 05:27

The photos are taken with a fish eye lense. Still the caption says, before modies arrival. Even if itnis 50 k. I will be happy with the crowd. Only regret is that this did not take place beore yesterday. Had this happned in say december. With yesterday being a repeat performance. I would have been over the moon.

Prem · Post by **Prem** » 06 May 2014 05:30

RajeshA wrote:Some severe tummy problems for Seculars

[iDoes the Bharatiyata thread make people nervous?

Very much. Before Rajiv Malhotra transformed himself into real Otra to deal with Secularists , Kaushal guru had conference on Indian History in Dilli to expose the lies of these Khandani Insitituional Liars. He faced much resistence by Psuedoes that he has to change the venue. It does make them nervous that they knew that their time was up and they fear the next stop for them in Thekke or Thaane. False story telling goes only that far, cant go any further. This was the time when Modi was not the scene yet.

sivab · Post by **sivab** » 06 May 2014 05:43

http://www.ndtv.com/article/opinion/nar ... topstories

Narendra Modi's Ebullient Speech in Amethi

Ashok Malik is a columnist and writer living in Delh

In the days leading up to Narendra Modi's evocative, ebullient speech in Amethi, the news media made much of how this was a departure from tradition and from an "unwritten rule" of not campaigning in constituencies of top leaders of rival parties. The sense that politicians had long adhered to a gentlemanly code of conduct was heart-warming. It left some people asking searching questions of why the old days had ended with the nasty election of 2014. While such sentiment was laudable, it needs to be pointed out it was based on humbug. (Highlights of Narendra Modi's speech at Amethi rally)

In truth, there is no such "unwritten rule" in Indian politics. Star campaigners, whether in state or national elections, are overworked and overburdened. They focus their energies on marginal seats - where a new social coalition, a change in local conditions and a big speech can convert defeat to victory. Constituencies where other parties are unbeatable - and most party leaders tend to contest from safe seats - are considered a waste of time. That is why, in 2004 or 2009, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and L.K. Advani, stayed away from Amethi. It was seen as impossible battle for the BJP.

However, when a political party smells blood - even in a hitherto difficult seat against a strong leader - it does not hesitate to jump into the fray. As such the BJP put up Sushma Swaraj against Sonia Gandhi in Bellary in 1999 and the Congress has Amarinder Singh challenging Arun Jaitley in Amritsar in 2014. To rewind, it was the chance of picking up high-profile seats that had the Congress and Rajiv Gandhi carefully choosing candidates against HN Bahuguna in Allahabad, Vajpayee in Gwalior and Chandra Shekhar in Ballia in 1984 and eventually defeating them. Electoral politics is a serious game. Nobody expends resources to make a symbolic point.

This background is important while assessing Narendra Modi's decision to cancel a public meeting elsewhere and head to Amethi on the final day of canvassing for the eighth phase of polling. He sensed a certain discontent with Rahul Gandhi. His party promoted the idea that Amethi was vulnerable. A last-minute thrust, it was felt, was a gamble worth taking.

Delivering his speech, Modi chose his words and his target carefully. In other areas, he has tended to club his opponents together and presented a "Modi versus the Rest" scenario. In Amethi, if the BJP is to do well, it needs to tap into the Yadav and lower OBC votes vacated by the Samajwadi Party, which has not put up a candidate. Hence Modi emphasised his own OBC status, and spoke of the Congress' humiliation of its late president Sitaram Kesri, also an OBC. Wonder of wonders, he even had kind words to say about Mulayam Singh Yadav, words he is unlikely to repeat when he resumes campaigning for the remaining seats of eastern Uttar Pradesh. (Watch)

Nothing about Modi can ever be simple. Once in Amethi, he addressed both the crowd before him as well as a larger national audience. Having made an all-India event of what would in the normal course have been just another constituency meeting, he found himself with a captive television audience in the final hour of campaigning for 64 seats in seven seats. Twenty-five of these seats are in Seemandhra, where 175 assembly constituencies will also be voted for on May 7.

With an eye on the Seemandhra voter, Modi referred to Rajiv Gandhi's humiliation of then Andhra Pradesh chief minister T Anjaiah in the early 1980s, and Sonia Gandhi's snubbing of PV Narasimha Rao on his death in 2004. While these references were couched as examples of the Nehru-Gandhi family's arrogance and short fuse, they didn't really make sense in Amethi. In his trademark manner, Modi was speaking to several categories of listeners.

So what is the upshot of Modi's speech? Actually, there are three.

First, he has captured TRPs at an opportune time in the campaign, which is something he has made a habit of in this election.

Second, by taking the battle into the heart of Amethi, he has left Priyanka Vadra and Rahul Gandhi that much more nervous.

Third, he's got us guessing and betting on Amethi. Till the other day, almost nobody was doing that.

Ashok Malik explains Modi's strategy in Amethi. Very valid points.

Nalla Baalu · Post by **Nalla Baalu** » 06 May 2014 05:46

gandharva wrote:
fanne wrote:My guess would be wrong, but the crowd does not look 2 lakhs from the photo above. Maybe it ahs been taken when the crowd has not fully assembled.
Do you notice height from which it is taken?. One can see curvature of the earth.

Saar, that is optical aberration from wide-angle lens on the UAV that Rahul Kanwal in lugging around on his 'Election Express'.

Anantha · Post by **Anantha** » 06 May 2014 05:46

If Khujli was honest enough he would have put up candidates against 10 top scamsters of Congis: For eg
Rahul, Sonia, Sibal, Khurshit, Tharoor, Supriya Sule, scindia, pilot, Praful Patel, Chagan Bhujbal
Khujli would have had enormous support across India and BJP would have been pressured to not field their candidates to
make sure Khujli wins. Khujli party could have become a strong voice in the parliament as an anti corruption advocate.
Khujli took a shorter route of making money and or acted according to the wishes of his foreign/domestic handlers, by assembling a who is who of anti nationals, naxals, mafia dons and assorted goondas.
He is himself responsible for the mess he is intoday

Anantha · Post by **Anantha** » 06 May 2014 05:50

gandharva wrote:
fanne wrote:My guess would be wrong, but the crowd does not look 2 lakhs from the photo above. Maybe it ahs been taken when the crowd has not fully assembled.
Do you notice height from which it is taken?. One can see curvature of the earth.

The pic is taken by Rahul kanwal's crew from location he visits. He calls it a sky eye. I think it is a drone camera. Today he has shown some pics of Lucknow using the sky camera. The camera moves from ground level to such a height, has to be a drone camera.

sivab · Post by **sivab** » 06 May 2014 05:50

S Siddhartha ‏@siddhu_75 7h

@alok_bhatt very bad at assessing crowds..till 3pm, venue was 2/3rd full..capacity 30k or so. Finally, 50-60k. Told biggest of 5 rallies tdy

This guy was in rally with his kid and is a BJP supporter. His father (probably UP BJP official) got a picture with Modi in airport yesterday, posted on this guys TL.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 06 May 2014 05:53

So what does satta market say about Amethi contest?

sivab · Post by **sivab** » 06 May 2014 05:57

That is Burkha on top, she probably didn't have access to media enclosure

fanne · Post by **fanne** » 06 May 2014 05:58

But look at the Indiatv news report, the crowd looks bigger!1

Anantha · Post by **Anantha** » 06 May 2014 05:59

I think Burkha's vehicle is stuck in traffic jam. Amethi has one thing common with Cross Bronx expressway. Obama will wear Amethi made watches from now on as Pappu said.

kmkraoind · Post by **kmkraoind** » 06 May 2014 06:00

I’m an outsider to Delhi and to politics as well, Narendra Modi says - TOI

A dhamaka and full-fledged interview to TOI, covering all major aspects and also giving good thrashing to some Dienasty followers.

sivab · Post by **sivab** » 06 May 2014 06:02

Anantha wrote:I think Burkha's vehicle is stuck in traffic jam. Amethi has one thing common with Cross Bronx expressway. Obama will wear Amethi made watches from now on as Pappu said.

No, it wasn't traffic jam. According to her own tweet with this pic, she watched the rally from car top.

Anantha · Post by **Anantha** » 06 May 2014 06:10

ramana wrote:So what does satta market say about Amethi contest?

Ramana
Bookies so far have offered booking on the margin of victory in Amethi not on who would win. I dont know the number. Today they might start offering on who would win as the scenerio has changed. In general the bookies will lose a lot in Amethi as the margins predicted was higher before, but now even for a Pappu wins the margin will be lower.
Currently the numbers are 1 rupee for congis 75 seats, 1 rupee for BJP 240 seats. In other words odds of BJP getting 240 seats are EQUAL to Congis getting 75 seats. It also means if Congis get 120 seats, BJP will get >300. Hurray

Hari Seldon · Post by **Hari Seldon** » 06 May 2014 06:32

Anantha wrote:Currently the numbers are 1 rupee for congis 75 seats, 1 rupee for BJP 240 seats. In other words odds of BJP getting 240 seats are EQUAL to Congis getting 75 seats. It also means if Congis get 120 seats, BJP will get >300. Hurray

last line doesn't make sense. perhaps you meant >200, eh?