2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

[komal]

^^

Whose pose for those not in Mahsrasthra?

[hanumadu]

Given how poor UP and Bihar are in terms of infra and basic amenities due to prior admins, this sort of stuff will go on for a while. But then ppl will get used to freebies and want more. That's the next challenge which will face NaMo/BJP.

As we have seen, in just 5 years people got tired of Nitish because now they want jobs. I doubt 2024 can be fought on piped water alone without jobs and higher income. Just freebies wont cut it.

[hanumadu]

^^

Whose pose for those not in Mahsrasthra?

Bal Thackerey?

[darshhan]

Given how poor UP and Bihar are in terms of infra and basic amenities due to prior admins, this sort of stuff will go on for a while. But then ppl will get used to freebies and want more. That's the next challenge which will face NaMo/BJP.

As we have seen, in just 5 years people got tired of Nitish because now they want jobs. I doubt 2024 can be fought on piped water alone without jobs and higher income. Just freebies wont cut it.

True. If BJP thinks it can fight 2024 on welfare schemes alone, they are wrong. People's aspirations are continuously rising. This is going to be the first election in the glare of pervasive internet which will percolate down to the lowest levels. Two aspects will define these elections from BJP's point of view.

1. Increased demand of high quality jobs and a better lifestyle.
2. Rising Hindu assertiveness. An important subset of hindu voters will not be satisfied with just Ayodhya or even Kashi/Mathura. Their demands will continue to increase.

[KL Dubey]

^^Great. I am sure NaMo and Shah have the pulse of the people and are the best experts to decide what they should be offering in 2024.

[nits]

Bihar and all seats in some states was big election for JP Nadda and he did quite a spectacular show... Which is a great thing for BJP to reduce dependency on AS so that he can focus more on government and implementation stuff... What do you guys think

[KL Dubey]

Given how poor UP and Bihar are in terms of infra and basic amenities due to prior admins, this sort of stuff will go on for a while. But then ppl will get used to freebies and want more. That's the next challenge which will face NaMo/BJP.

As we have seen, in just 5 years people got tired of Nitish because now they want jobs. I doubt 2024 can be fought on piped water alone without jobs and higher income. Just freebies wont cut it.

These are not throw-and-forget freebies, these are the basic infrastructure for a decent living. People need these first in order to become productive. In India, having a job and a somewhat higher income had failed to guarantee access to modern infrastructure, quality education, healthcare, food security, etc for most people. It had just created more problems (like urban slums). Now NaMo has turned the "failed goremint" into a more "functional goremint". This is what people missed earlier.

[hanumadu]

Vijay
@centerofright
No foreign funds for NGOs backing political activities | India News - The screws get tightened one by one - Hope next step is no PILs by FCRA funded firms

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ind ... 180694.cms

No foreign funds for farmer or student organisations participating in party politics

[asbchakri]

For everyone talking about the great strike rate for RJD..

https://zeenews.india.com/india/dna-exc ... 24269.html

The NDA has won 125 seats in the Bihar election, three more seats than the requisite majority figure, while the Mahagathbandhan with 110 seats is in the second place. Some experts opine that RJD's Tejashwi Yadav has put forth the most spectacular performance in these elections.

On the contrary, RJD contested 101 seats in 2015 and won 80 seats, but this time it contested 144 seats and won merely 75 seats, showing that RJD's strike rate is much lower than the previous time. It was around 80 percent in 2015, and the same has come down just 52 percent. This clearly shows that the RJD had contested on 43 more seats but could win merely 5 seats more than the last time.

The BJP won 74 seats in comparison to RJD's 75, but it contested only 110 seats and won 74 seats. Accordingly, BJP's strike rate is 67 percent, while the RJD's strike rate is restricted to 52 percent.

[V_Raman]

Here is my list for 2024

Overall
COVID would be gone
agriculture reforms would have settled down
GST would have settled down
RJB temple will be complete with a local airport and lakhs of pilgrims visiting
Labor reforms would have settled down
Land reforms would have settled down

Political
Kashmir would have settled down
UCC will be passed close to the election
All these yojanas would have made the people wary of freebie based campaigning
Attempt to pass NJAC again

national security
NaMo will ride high on China handling
No terrorist attack till then will further bolster the credentials - none in JK/Ladakh adds to the aura

Economy
some Make in India wins
interest rates would be further down
inflation being stable would increase the wealth indirectly - we are underestimating the power of this IMO

Civilizational
continue to tighten screws on NGO/FCRA and squeeze money-aided conversion
Expose the church sexual abuse to reduce their stature - expose majority to what all happens in the name of religion

Key variables
good monsoon in subsequent years - this will go a long way in the electoral prospects
real estate sector picking up
UP elections
upward trend in jobs generation
USA relationship

[SRajesh]

Here is my list for 2024

Overall
COVID would be gone
agriculture reforms would have settled down
GST would have settled down
RJB temple will be complete with a local airport and lakhs of pilgrims visiting
Labor reforms would have settled down
Land reforms would have settled down

Political
Kashmir would have settled down
UCC will be passed close to the election
All these yojanas would have made the people wary of freebie based campaigning

national security
NaMo will ride high on China handling
No terrorist attack till then will further bolster the credentials - none in JK/Ladakh adds to the aura

Economy
some Make in India wins
interest rates would be further down
inflation being stable would increase the wealth indirectly - we are underestimating the power of this IMO

Key variables
good monsoon in subsequent years - this will go a long way in the electoral prospects
real estate sector picking up
UP elections
upward trend in jobs generation
USA relationship

Ramanji
Do you think their should be a some changes to the Cabinet
To remove some of the 'Non Performing Assests'
bring fresh faces
Even lateral entry to key cabinet posts like Jaishankar!!(may cause heartburn amongst the party faithful's though)
I mean going beyond just optics!!

[Pratyush]

We are ignoring the fact that states have a significant role to play in terms of inviting industry. The post covid migration crisis has provided an opportunity to Bihar and Uttar Pradesh to kick start industry in the two states.

If that is done in the next two years. 2024 is in the bag.

Time to crack the whip on Nitish and Yogi.

[greatde]

Here’s hoping Arnab remains a journalist foremost. He doesn’t and should not make it a personal or emotional fight. He can easily do a Kejriwal and join politics, and that would not be great tactic.

He has to fight within the mainstream media and using the same tools. Learn from NDTV and how they went after their targets.

[Mollick.R]

X-post from internal security thread.
This is great, Another door closed for FFNGOs to interfere in our political system.................
Mota bhai AS is doing it with systematic way & with surgical precision.
So far good going, more needs to be done though ...............

No foreign funds for farmer or student organisations participating in party politics
By Bharti Jain, TNN Last Updated: Nov 12, 2020, 10:08 AM IST

The rules require all entities seeking registration or prior permission under FCRA to be in existence for three years and having spent a minimum Rs 15 lakh on its core activities for the benefit of society during the last three financial years.

Importantly, the new rules add a sub-rule to Rule 3, stating that organisations specified under clauses (v) and (vi) of sub-rule 1 -- which cover organisation of farmers, workers, students, caste and community-based organisations not directly aligned to parties but which advance political interests of such groups, as well as outfits that habitually engage in political action like bandhs, hartal, rasta roko -- shall be considered of political nature if they participate in party politics. Entities of political nature are barred from receiving foreign contributions.

The new rules have also increased the application fee for grant of registration under FCRA to Rs 5,000 from Rs 3,000, and for grant of prior permission to Rs 10,000 from Rs 5,000; also, the fee to be paid with application for renewal of FCRA registration has also been fixed at Rs 5,000. Such fee should be submitted through a payment gateway. If no application for renewal of registration is received or the application is not accompanied by the requisite fee before the expiry of validity of the certificate of registration, such validity shall be deemed to have ceased from the date of completion of five years from the date of the grant of certificate of registration, as per the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) (Amendment) Rules, 2020 notified on Wednesday.

The Central government, in exceptional cases or in cases where a person is controlled by the Central government or a state government may waive the conditions requiring entities applying for registration/prior permission under FCRA to be in existence for three years and having spent Rs 15 lakh on its core activities aimed at benefit of the society for past three years. If an entity wants inclusion of its existing capital investment in assets like land, building, other permanent structures, vehicles, equipment in the computation of its spending during last three years, then the chief functionary shall give an undertaking that the assets shall be vested henceforth with the person till the validity of the certificate and they shall be utilised only for the activities covered under the Act and the rules made thereunder and shall not be diverted for any other purpose.

A person seeking prior permission for receipt of a specific amount from a specific donor for carrying out specific activities or projects, under the new rules, must submit a specific commitment letter from the donor indicating the amount of foreign contribution and the purpose for which it is proposed to be given. For the Indian recipient and foreign donor organisations having common members, prior permission shall be granted to the person provided the chief functionary of the recipient NGO is not a part of the donor organisation and 75% of the office-bearers or members of the governing body of the NGO are not members or employees of the foreign donor organisation. In case of foreign donor organisation being a single individual that individual shall not be the chief functionary or office bearer of the recipient person; and in case of a single foreign donor, 75% of the office bearers or members of the governing body of the recipient person shall not be the family members or close relatives of the donor.

In the new rules, after rule 9, a new rule 9A shall be inserted to regulate permission for receipt of foreign contribution in application for obtaining prior permission. If the value of foreign contribution on the date of final disposal of an application for obtaining prior permission exceeds Rs 1 crore, the Central government may permit receipt of foreign contribution in such instalments, as it may deem fit: provided that the second and subsequent instalment shall be released after submission of proof of utilisation of 75% of the foreign contribution received in the previous instalment and after field inquiry of the utilisation of foreign contribution.”

The fee to be paid along with application for the compounding of an offence under Section 41 has also been doubled to Rs 3,000 from Rs 1,500 earlier, and shall be submitted electronically.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ne ... 184140.cms

Me thinks linking of FCRA licence renewal with this mandatory nominal fee is a smart legal move. This covers the
flanks (legal side) in case some entity ignores to renew their licence still receives funding in the meantime, it will be easy for GOI to freeze bank A/C and forfeit the money.

Edit History:- Updated the post with Economic time of India article, written by same author but updated latest (Last Updated: Nov 12, 2020, 10:08 AM IST version)

[darshhan]

Here is my list for 2024

Overall
COVID would be gone
agriculture reforms would have settled down
GST would have settled down
RJB temple will be complete with a local airport and lakhs of pilgrims visiting
Labor reforms would have settled down
Land reforms would have settled down

Political
Kashmir would have settled down
UCC will be passed close to the election
All these yojanas would have made the people wary of freebie based campaigning

national security
NaMo will ride high on China handling
No terrorist attack till then will further bolster the credentials - none in JK/Ladakh adds to the aura

Economy
some Make in India wins
interest rates would be further down
inflation being stable would increase the wealth indirectly - we are underestimating the power of this IMO

Key variables
good monsoon in subsequent years - this will go a long way in the electoral prospects
real estate sector picking up
UP elections
upward trend in jobs generation
USA relationship

Raman ji, Aim higher in national security and economy. Also add another category " Civilizational " in your list. Educational reforms, removing temples from govt control, removing discrimatory RTE, weapons training for Hindu citizens, removing family planning schemes wrt Hindus etc should come in this list.

[V_Raman]

Civilizational is a great category. some loose thoughts below...

NEP is already out - will get implemented in the next few years - even kushboo supported it and flipped
RTE - the govt will back off any thing that feels like a reversal of minority privileges - they have a big one lined up - UCC

I dont think govt will remove temples from govt control - govt gets substantial revenue from that

I think India will maintain status quo in borders - there will be nothing initiated by India. If Deans-2022 comes about - we will fight, but we will not start anything.

I see 2 items in civilizational category

Civilizational
continue to tighten screws on NGO/FCRA and squeeze money-aided conversion
Expose the church sexual abuse to reduce their stature

one more item to political which will be tried again

Political
Attempt to pass NJAC again - something tells me that Chandrachud might agree with it

[Mollick.R]

damage done, maps forwarded and retweeted many millions of times.

apology meaningless.

damage done purposely and wilfully.

BTW, it appears that the so called "apology" is only verbal and there is nothing in writing so far.

Yes. This is another display of GoI's ineptitude. Similar to not closing down Amazon and Flipkart for not showing chinese tags. What's the point of chinese tags after the festivals?

GoI could have done same thing being done to Republic and asked to see every single transaction and employee.

Some small but incremental movement has taken place on this matter. Ignore the news article's "Steep" part (Rs 25,000 is not steep, but Peanuts) but still something is always better than nothing. As of now the announcement lacks clarity


Amazon, Flipkart may have to pay steep fines for failure of sellers to publish country of origin

Last Updated : Nov 12, 2020 01:21 PM IST | Source: Moneycontrol.com//Priyanka Sahay

According to govt officials, since etailers are the facilitators, they will be held responsible. ‘The fine can start from Rs 25,000 for the first offence. It can get extended for multiple offences. There is no immediate clarity whether there will be a cap on the fine.

Etailers such as Amazon and Flipkart will be held liable and can be fined if sellers on their platforms do not publish the country of origin on their products, according to a senior government official.

"When you (etailers) allow sellers (to sell)..., do not allow them to violate the law. You will be held liable because you are the facilitator," the official told Moneycontrol on condition of anonymity.

According to him, companies are liable to pay a fine starting from Rs 25,000 for the first offence. It can get extended for multiple offences. There was no immediate clarity if there will be a cap on fine. Currently, just 70 percent of the listings available on the two ecommerce companies comply with this rule.

Last month, the Ministry of Consumer Affairs had sent the two etailers notices for not displaying the country of origin on products sold on their websites. The ministry had asked them to explain the reason within 15 days, failing which action would be initiated against them as per the provisions of the Legal Metrology Rules, 2011.

According to the source quoted above, the etailers have sent their responses to the government stating that they have already started delisting sellers who have failed to display the country of origin of their products. “The government is now examining their response and will decide on the next mode of action shortly.”

An Amazon spokesperson said: “Amazon.in is a marketplace enabling third party sellers to list and offer goods for sale to customers in India. Third-party sellers list, own and sell products on the marketplace, and they are also responsible for updating the country of origin, as legally mandated. We display country of origin information for all products as provided to us by the sellers."

Industry sources said etaliers can scan through the products listed on their websites through data search algorithms to figure out which fields are populated and which are not in the product listing form.

However, even as they can scan out the listings which do not have the country of origin mentioned, they cannot update that themselves since that information lies with the sellers who listed the products. Etailers have been consistently asking sellers to update their listings in the last few months. According to an industry source, the companies are weeding out sellers from the marketplaces organically. “Sellers who do not provide the details of the country of origin will not be able to list their products and are automatically exiting the system.” There is no immediate clarity on the number of sellers who have exited so far.

Read Full Article here//Moneycontrol.com Link
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/busin ... 08301.html

[darshan]

We have started implementing all directives given by Sardar Patel: Shah while launching Seemant Vikas Utsav from Kutch
https://www.deshgujarat.com/2020/11/12/ ... rom-kutch/
Bhuj: Launching a nationwide ‘Seemant Vikas Utsav – 2020’ programme from Indo-Pak border district Kutch in Gujarat today, Union Home minister Amit Shah said the BJP led NDA government in the Centre has started implementing all directives given by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.

‘We have started implementing all directives given by Sardar Saheb,’ said Amit Shah.

‘Sardar Patel check post in Rann of Kutch is a place where a brigade strength of attack by Pakistan was countered by handful of our jawans. If Sardar Patel’s letters are gone through, he had said in his time that road, water, power must reach border areas. Sardar didn’t stay for long to execute his idea and Congress governments didn’t follow his advise. We have started implementing all directives given by Sardar Saheb,’ Shah said.
....
‘Earlier when some official would do some wrong, he would be sent to border area duty in Kutch and it was considered punishment posting because there was no water, there was not light, there was no development in Kutch. Today water has reached upto border post of Khavda. Today Dhordo tent city has become tourist attraction. Power has reached cent percent areas,’ Shah said.

Shah said Seemant Utsav will cover entire geographical international border areas of India. He said he is going to stay with border jawans. He said the Prime Minister is also going to visit border areas as part of Seemant Vikas Utsav.

Shah stressed on need to prevent migration from border areas. He said in order to prevent migration, the border area villages must be developed same way as villages elsewhere.

‘Our Prime Minister always says that we have to first think about development of villages in border areas. Each government programmes must be implemented first in border area villages,’ said Amit Shah adding that it is a promise of BJP government which is being implemented too.

Shah said, governance and development must reach border areas and it is the motive behind Seemant Vikas Utsav programme. Creating awareness among border area people who are contributing to border security is also one of motives behind this programme.

Shah said the hospitals that were earlier serving only BSF jawans, are now open for all border area citizens under Pradhan Mantri Yojana.

Shah said, ‘after this meeting, I am going to attend a meeting in Bhuj with all agencies involved in border area development. Under Vikas Utsav programme, arrangements will be done to plug in all loopholes and regular monitoring will also be done. When each development work in 15,000 km long border area is reviewed at this level, the execution of ideas of Modiji will not just be limited to Delhi but will reach you. The programmes have reached you and they will reach you in even more force.’

Shah inaugurated an exhibition of Border Security Force (BSF) at Tent City in Dhordo.

The programme was attended by office bearers of villages, taluka panchayats, district panchayats, member of parliament, MLAs, municipality office bearers among others.

[vijayk]

https://swarajyamag.com/politics/bihar- ... endra-modi
Bihar Results And The Foundational Hindutva of Narendra Modi

There are always certain questions raised against Modi from his core constituency that he is not implementing the Hindutva agenda or worse, that he is neglecting his Hindutva agenda.

In reality what Modi is doing is invigorating Hindutva.

An impoverished rural scenario with a corrupt polity is an ideal breeding ground of anti-Hindu mindset. For the last three centuries, when the colonial government created a quasi- ‘native’ bureaucratic system, it was intentionally designed to be corrupt.

It was designed to create the impression of the colonial imperial machine as giving the people amnesties and liberation from their cultural shackles while in reality the machine was impoverishing the Indian heartland. For this system to be efficient it should allow fringe benefits to the authorities – while the ‘native’ bureaucrats were loyal to the masters they could be corruptly cruel to the ‘uneducated’ Indian masses.

This again had an advantage. The British master could easily convince the ordinary Indians that their cultural nature is corruption. In fact, this ties in well with the evangelical notion that the pagan idolatrous Hindus are corrupt because their religion is morally deficient with respect to Christianity in particular and monotheistic religions in general.

Caricaturing Stalinist terms in Indian democracy, she could talk about the communal fascist forces and go melodramatic about atrocities against the women and ‘Harijans’ even as she and her party minions promoted caste-vote bank politics like Kshatriya-Harijan-Adivasi-Muslim formulae.

Instead of bridging the differences, the Nehruvian polity deepened every social division. Ensuing violence and rampant corruptions could always be placed at the altar of Hinduism – from elusive ‘Brahminism’ to ‘caste Hindus’ to communal forces. Do not Hindus by nature placate their Gods with demands and that is where corruption begins – went the argument. One can hear such wisdom even today.

With the coming of Sonia Gandhi, even small hesitations at negative stereotyping Hinduism, which existed in Nehruvian polity, vapourised.

The decade under UPA saw simultaneously increase in anti-Hindu polity in a radical way and also corruption. Still the blame was on the ‘system’ by which they actually meant the cultural system of India.

Thus, a Rahul Gandhi could say without blinking an eye that he wanted to change the system even as he sat there as a symbol of a totally anti-democratic dynasty system.

This is the invisible coda of anti-Hindu polity which has to be fought.

Narendra Modi has brilliantly identified this aspect.

Given the heavy colonial conditioning, a Hindu facing social discrimination and/or corruption is most likely to blame not only the politicians but also the entire Hindu culture and the nation for his or her sufferings.

The memes putting side by side the domestic abuse of women and the Goddesses or a hungry child and a milk-Abishekam of a Hindu deity, are results of our colonised pathological mindset. This is the unconscious deep conditioning that has entered into our popular culture.

If one looks at identity politics, one can see that it has a deeper anti-Hindu core to it. At the same time every negative outcome of identity politics – in fact most of these outcomes are negative- gets blamed on Hindu Dharma. ‘Caste is responsible for the violence’ and ‘Hinduism is responsible for the caste.’

Through the delivery of LPG to rural households, by improving the toilet facilities, by making every woman irrespective of caste or creed feel safe and secure, by direct bank money transfer and now through the campaign to make good drinking water available to all – Narendra Modi through all these achievements is making a grand, deep Hindutva statement.

And the genius of Narendra Modi is in transforming this achievement simultaneously into electoral victory over the Congress and other assorted anti-Hindu 'Breaking India' forces.

[nachiket]

For everyone talking about the great strike rate for RJD..

https://zeenews.india.com/india/dna-exc ... 24269.html

The NDA has won 125 seats in the Bihar election, three more seats than the requisite majority figure, while the Mahagathbandhan with 110 seats is in the second place. Some experts opine that RJD's Tejashwi Yadav has put forth the most spectacular performance in these elections.

On the contrary, RJD contested 101 seats in 2015 and won 80 seats, but this time it contested 144 seats and won merely 75 seats, showing that RJD's strike rate is much lower than the previous time. It was around 80 percent in 2015, and the same has come down just 52 percent. This clearly shows that the RJD had contested on 43 more seats but could win merely 5 seats more than the last time.

While that is true, RJD had the JDU on their side the last time and were sharing seats. WIth BJP and JDU doing that this time, it should have been an easy victory for them. It would be unwise to dismiss Tejashwi Yadav and the RJD's performance and what it might mean for the future.

One thing is sure, NDA has to get Chirag Paswan back into the fold in Bihar. Without him cutting JDU's votes, the outcome would have never been in doubt nor the results this close.

[Karan M]

https://swarajyamag.com/politics/bihar- ... endra-modi
Bihar Results And The Foundational Hindutva of Narendra Modi

And the genius of Narendra Modi is in transforming this achievement simultaneously into electoral victory over the Congress and other assorted anti-Hindu 'Breaking India' forces.

[/quote]

Brilliant article. Agree 100%. Nobody protected their civilization successfully on an empty stomach. What NaMo is doing is moving people to a level wherein their basic needs are met and they can look to move ahead without being resentful of their fellow people or background.

[V_Raman]

+1 Brillantly articulated!!!!

[Karan M]

Given how poor UP and Bihar are in terms of infra and basic amenities due to prior admins, this sort of stuff will go on for a while. But then ppl will get used to freebies and want more. That's the next challenge which will face NaMo/BJP.

As we have seen, in just 5 years people got tired of Nitish because now they want jobs. I doubt 2024 can be fought on piped water alone without jobs and higher income. Just freebies wont cut it.

There is a huge infra push in Bihar and UP. Bihars income levels are apparently lowest in India, and even lower than that of UP. If the infra succeeds plus all the basic welfare state apparatus is setup, votes will hopefully follow. Improvements in state run health care and education are another two low hanging fruit. Once these basics are put in place, and with state/center cooperating on law and order and less red tape, pvt sector business should automatically pick up.

IMHO another 10 years before all this happens. Nitish has taken some 15 years to get to this point with Center supporting him heavily.

[vijayk]

[chetak]

Imagine a govt in BH, a ninth std pass tejeswi running a govt supported by hardcore maoists & separatist razakars.

the congis have ceased to draw the muslim vote and the eyetalians seem to have no inkling of how to proceed next except to plan family holidays in places like jaisalmer and then cancel hurriedly due to snide criticism from within the party.

at one time, this family used to picnic on aircraft carriers with admirals at their beck and call.

there is a revolt brewing in the congi ranks blaming the leadership for bad candidate selection in BH and the use to suicide vested clueless creeps like yudite raaj is foolish beyond belief and the only time such a creep like yudite raaj actually knows where he is going is after a heavy dose of castor oil.

pappu and pappi are completely out of their kiddie wading pool depth.

[chetak]

[img]https://imgur.com/sXKnsoa.png[img]

coming from a leftie icon like odrama, that's gotta hurt the leftie/lootyens ecosystems really bad.

[Karan M]

As long as the family is in politics we are not out of the woods. Enough fools to vote for them.

[Suraj]

Ombaba about RaGa

That's a very succinct and well considered estimation of RaGa's capabilities by Ombaba.

[chetak]

very curious

the campaign against arnab seems to be much deeper and more widespread than earlier imagined

wonder why the same SCBA did not say anything against bail by sms and opening of the SC at midnight to hear cases of convicted terrorists and other aatankwadi

Bar & Bench@barandbench · Nov 10

President of SCBA and Senior Adv Dushyant Dave writes to #SupremeCourt court Secretary General asking if there is any special direction from CJI SA Bobde to urgently list all matters filed by #ArnabGoswami while similar matters take long for getting listed

[chetak]

is top grade afghan maal so easily available to these guys

here is another darbari nutcase who thinks that biden won the US elections just to help such creeps sort out their problems with Modi.

honor killings have been going on for centuries now and one old and doddering biden is going to muscle the jehadis into giving up their all time favorite sport

Ajai Shukla@ajaishukla · Nov 10
Biden govt will end the free pass Modi got from Trump on human rights, religious & democratic freedoms, free press, etc.

Writing is on the wall. In recent days, Egypt, Iran have released prominent political prisoners, UAE decriminalized alcohol & cracked down on honour killings.

[chetak]

Ombaba about RaGa

That's a very succinct and well considered estimation of RaGa's capabilities by Ombaba.

Over the years, Barack Obama's glibness & gasbaggery has been fairly apparent. What he said about Rahul Gandhi has been true prior to, and despite, him saying so. Him saying that does not lend any more credence to what hundreds of millions of Indians already know.

via @KartikeyaTanna

[vijayk]

That's a very succinct and well considered estimation of RaGa's capabilities by Ombaba.

Over the years, Barack Obama's glibness & gasbaggery has been fairly apparent. What he said about Rahul Gandhi has been true prior to, and despite, him saying so. Him saying that does not lend any more credence to what hundreds of millions of Indians already know.

via @KartikeyaTanna

So true!

Indians knew this before this moron said this ... That's why they kicked them out

[Suraj]

That's a very succinct and well considered estimation of RaGa's capabilities by Ombaba.

Over the years, Barack Obama's glibness & gasbaggery has been fairly apparent. What he said about Rahul Gandhi has been true prior to, and despite, him saying so. Him saying that does not lend any more credence to what hundreds of millions of Indians already know.

via @KartikeyaTanna

Whoever said that is missing the point. Ombaba is a big talisman of the liberals, and yet he publicly mocked the Youthy Con as a credulous halfwit. It’s good that he punches holes into the hot air balloons of these ‘progressive’ types - it keeps them fighting each other. What the average Indian center right folks believe is besides the point. For the same reason, he’s not so popular among the woke types who know how he sees them. That doesn’t mean he’s generally agreeable, just that he says useful things. I expect he views Modi like he does any center right leader, ie negatively.

[chetak]

via @KartikeyaTanna

Whoever said that is missing the point. Ombaba is a big talisman of the liberals, and yet he publicly mocked the Youthy Con as a credulous halfwit. It’s good that he punches holes into the hot air balloons of these ‘progressive’ types - it keeps them fighting each other. What the average Indian center right folks believe is besides the point. For the same reason, he’s not so popular among the woke types who know how he sees them. That doesn’t mean he’s generally agreeable, just that he says useful things. I expect he views Modi like he does any center right leader, ie negatively.

he's called sonia "pretty" and Manmohan Singh coming across as having a kind of “impassive integrity”.

odrama seems to have hedged his bets

[chetak]

In KAR BJP Wins 4/4 Legislative Council Seats.

Cong and JD(S) Resoundingly defeated in Council polls too.

vocal calls for replacement of yeddiyurappa recedes as the BJP under yeddiyurappa breaches some of the vokkaliga strongholds where DK shivakumar claimed to hold sway.

[kvraghav]

There was a nice analysis today which said if Chirag was part of NDA, JDU would have got 79 seats based on the votes LJP got. This along with congressi 19, left 16 and others 8 seats, he could have formed his own govt without RJD and BJP. RJD will anyways dump congress next. Well played Amit Shah.

[KL Dubey]

Brilliant article. Agree 100%. Nobody protected their civilization successfully on an empty stomach. What NaMo is doing is moving people to a level wherein their basic needs are met and they can look to move ahead without being resentful of their fellow people or background.

Yes. I have been saying this here for years. People don't listen and rehash the same damn whines every few months.

[SRajesh]

via @KartikeyaTanna

Whoever said that is missing the point. Ombaba is a big talisman of the liberals, and yet he publicly mocked the Youthy Con as a credulous halfwit. It’s good that he punches holes into the hot air balloons of these ‘progressive’ types - it keeps them fighting each other. What the average Indian center right folks believe is besides the point. For the same reason, he’s not so popular among the woke types who know how he sees them. That doesn’t mean he’s generally agreeable, just that he says useful things. I expect he views Modi like he does any center right leader, ie negatively.

Mod Saab:
In all this talk of 'Leader of Questionable Credibility' we seem to the missing what the Left Liberals are building up for the 2024!!
In days to come I sincerely beleive that Tejasvi Yadav is going to be projected as the credible opponent to NaMo
The Print and Coupta are already upto it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOTJZUkRWBc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxgGXBtJ-z8
The others wont be far behind.
Bengal and UP elections would the testing grounds If he does manage to get a Combo going with Didi in Bengal and Akhilesh/Mausiji in UP and manages to get the Razakars in he will sure the projected as a National Leader regardless of 9th Pass
There are again rumblings in Cong following the debacle so Raoul would never be projected as National leader by the Ghatabandan
BJP should be looking at him to cut him down to size.

[Hari Seldon]

Brilliant article. Agree 100%. Nobody protected their civilization successfully on an empty stomach. What NaMo is doing is moving people to a level wherein their basic needs are met and they can look to move ahead without being resentful of their fellow people or background.

Yes. I have been saying this here for years. People don't listen and rehash the same damn whines every few months.

KLPD saar

I'm among those who have criticized Modiji's zero progress on certain fronts - like leveling the playing field on the edu and shrines mgmt front.

What Modi-is-infalliable brigade seems to miss - wilful blindness more than anything else - is that vikas and Indic cultural agendas are *not* mutually contradictory. They could and should move hand in hand. But the modi==infalliable brigade always seeks to call pro-H activity as somehow at the expense of much-needed development and welfare activities in some sorta sinister zero sum game, and hence expendable.

I'm yet to hear any real reason (excuses aside) why no change was even attempted in our egregiously written NCERT syllabi history textbooks - not one word (forget page, chapter, course) while over six yrs these same toxic books have managed to poison millions of impressionable Yindoo minds. The same Modi ji who in 2014 campaigining oozed brilliant understanding and sympathy for the impact a further 5 lost years would have on K-12 students!

OK, one can't overturn overnight a decades old marxist-citadel. But then what chankian neeti asks us to put in MHRD a buffoon who boasts he hasn't changed one word in history textbooks?? What maha-compulsion to cater to witches like Maenaka who dumps on our rituals while confidently showing us the finger??

Why nary one word or deed on palghar or the munger firing or any number of other openly anti-H activities when rushing to comment sympathetically for victims of 'gorakshak lynchings' and broken church windows? Are we not Modi ji's well-wishers and voters too? Are our lives and interests so expendable?? So Modi sarkar can conveniently throw us under the bus but hey, our raising these issues and questioning the samraat == periodic whining?

If Modi-shah are indeed top-dogs in the party, can it be truly believed that these mantris (and various CMs like Khattar) act against H interests and festivals etc without the top's implicit OK? How can they feign silence or worse ignorance whenever convenient and still expect Hs to swallow whatever BJP's netas, mantris, CMs etc dish out with nary a question also?

P.S. It's OK. I don't expect you to be able to answer because there is none. There is a pattern that seems to emerge and it is hard to believe what interests Modi-shah may have in not ordering at least an administrative inquiry into, for instance, the Munger firings.

P.S. Nobody but nobody opposes development. Enough with that canard used to slander Modi voters who question modi. Only. Sheesh.

[Lisa]

Like Great Grandfather, a useful idiot!