2019 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

darshan · Post by **darshan** » 21 Jul 2019 04:51

http://sandesh.com/tweet-to-remove-the- ... epartment/

Remove the word “orderly” for “mulaqat”? Changed one enslaver for another. Historical brainwashing.

kit · Post by **kit** » 21 Jul 2019 11:36

chetak wrote:only Modi would do this now

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US has shown it's true colors ,it's only natural India get it's act together and support Russia especially eastern part where economic growth in relationship is predicted

India set to sign US-like defence logistics sharing pact with Russia.

NEW DELHI: India is close to inking a key defence logistics sharing pact which will place it as a rare nation that has such a strategic agreement with both of the old cold war rivals – the US and Russia.

The Agreement on Reciprocal Logistics Support (ARLS) is being seen as an important practical step that could be signed at the upcoming meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Vladimir Putin at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia in early September.

India has a defence logistics sharing agreement with its largest training partner, the US. A similar agreement was also inked with France — another big ally for joint exercises — in 2018.

Russian and American warships refuelling at same place

.. no where else on earth

darshan · Post by **darshan** » 21 Jul 2019 18:44

Need Of The Hour Is To Make People Aware Of Consequences Of Repealing Article 370, Says Farooq Abdullah https://swarajyamag.com/insta/need-of-t ... q-abdullah

Excellent suggestion. Hindus will start getting ready for the low level jihad.

KLNMurthy · Post by **KLNMurthy** » 21 Jul 2019 19:46

chetak wrote:

Interesting. If their religion is not so important to them, compared to their need for refuge, why not simply convert to Hinduism, since the Home Minister himself has repeatedly stated that Hindus will receive asylum?

pankajs · Post by **pankajs** » 21 Jul 2019 20:17

More natak from Karnataka ... Moday @ SC will be interesting with a bunch of petitions from both sides. Guess Now SC would lay the deadline for the Trust vote ... or not. But I would bet on SC fixing a deadline.

https://www.republicworld.com/india-new ... trust-vote
Karnataka Crisis: 2 Independent MLAs Approach SC, Allege That HD Kumaraswamy Plans To Admit Himself To A Hospital To Delay Trust Vote

Karthik S · Post by **Karthik S** » 21 Jul 2019 21:20

When In Rome? BJP Forms ‘Christian Missionary Cell’ In Mizoram To Crack Last North-East Holdout

When In Rome? BJP Forms ‘Christian Missionary Cell’ In Mizoram To Crack Last North-East Holdout
Mizo supporters of the BJP gathered at a rally in the state.
In an attempt to expand its presence in Mizoram, which remains the only North-East state not ruled by the party or one of its allies, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has established a ‘Christian Missionary Cell’, which will be headed by Lalhriatrenga Chhangte, who had recently joined the party, reports Northeast Now.

Most people in Mizoram are christians, with Census 2011 data showing that around 87.16 per cent of the state’s population followed the religion. Hinduism is the third largest religion in the state at 2.75 per cent, behind Buddhism whose followers constitute 8.51 per cent of the population.

BJP had tried to woo Chhangte to stand on its ticket in the Lok Sabha elections which were conducted this year. However, he chose to stand as an independent but could not win.

He agreed to join the BJP, but with one of the main conditions being that a Christian Missionary Cell would be constituted by the party. He was officially made a member of the BJP on 12 July.

The missionary cell’s main aim will be to form a database which will include the names, contacts, and other details of all Christian missionaries in the state to offer assistance to them as per their needs.

https://swarajyamag.com/insta/when-in-r ... st-holdout

Assistance to other missionaries in the state, I wonder how difficult it will be to provide assistance to the ones outside the state from there.

A twitter reply to this news:

BJP can try the same in TN as well, it will surely work there.

darshan · Post by **darshan** » 21 Jul 2019 22:08

https://youtu.be/i3o-VC6DASk
On July 15th, the Supreme Court agreed to examine the constitutional validity of certain legal provisions that allow abortion only to save the woman's life or in case of abnormal foetus… and allegedly violate women's right to health, free reproductive choice as well as privacy.

Admitting a writ petition filed by Swati Agarwal, Garima Sekseria and Prachi Vats, the apex court issued a notice to the Centre on their contention that several provisions of the 48-year-old Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act of 1971 imposes severe restrictions on the reproductive choice of a woman, her personal liberty and bodily autonomy.

In their plea, the petitioners have contended that the right to choose whether to conceive and carry pregnancy to its full term or to terminate it was at the core of one's privacy, dignity, personal autonomy, bodily integrity, self determination and right to health.

We discuss on the show whether liberalizing the abortion law will help reduce the high number of unsafe abortions in the country. Will it lead to more sex election abortions? And is liberalizing the law enough?

darshan · Post by **darshan** » 22 Jul 2019 01:50

BJP leader BS Tomar shot dead in Ghaziabad, accused Shahrukh and Tasneem arrested
https://www.opindia.com/2019/07/bjp-lea ... -arrested/
Two accused, Shahrukh and Tasneem, have been arrested for the murder of BJP functionary BS Tomar, reports Times of India journalist Raj Shekhar Jha.

Tomar was shot dead late last night in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad. The killers had fired five rounds at Tomar. He was rushed to the hospital but he succumbed to injuries at the hospital. The incident took place about 50 metres from a police station. SHO Praveen Sharma has been suspended over the incident.

darshan · Post by **darshan** » 22 Jul 2019 16:27

Dalits are being infiltrated and killed by muslims. Hopefully they won't fall for this.

Lucknow: Shia cleric Maulana Kalbe Jawad announces to set up a camp to teach Muslims, Dalits how to procure firearms
https://www.opindia.com/2019/07/lucknow ... -firearms/

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 22 Jul 2019 16:52

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The part of J&K governor Satya Pal Malik’s speech in #Kargil on Sunday that (really) riled the dynastic families of the Valley, not the metaphorical “kill” them bit. Read!

darshan · Post by **darshan** » 22 Jul 2019 17:07

Few days ago I had mentioned Petlad area and how in last 100 years multiple times Hindus had emptied their areas and moved to "societies" instead of resisting and fighting. In one such taken over areas, recently there was GJ officer clearing encroachment done by building masjid in municipality plot. Muslim councilors openly gave threat to kill her and local police won't take FIR on records pending further investigation.

https://www.divyabhaskar.co.in/madhya-g ... 22319.html

http://sardargurjari.com/visitor/Detail ... wsId=87664

Nearby in Anand, for a muslim it's as easy as walking up, shooting, and disappearing through the liquor route within hours. Looks like a Dalit was shot and local shooter was caught as he was given up to cut ties by liquor mafia. Dalits need to understand that muslims already know where to get weapons and have them.
http://sardargurjari.com/visitor/Detail ... wsId=87405

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 22 Jul 2019 17:28

darshan wrote:Dalits are being infiltrated and killed by muslims. Hopefully they won't fall for this.

Lucknow: Shia cleric Maulana Kalbe Jawad announces to set up a camp to teach Muslims, Dalits how to procure firearms
https://www.opindia.com/2019/07/lucknow ... -firearms/

both "minorities" are claiming dalits as their own but in actual fact, the faithful of both communities despise them and demonstrably do so.

unfortunately, not too different from so many ignorant Hindus too who needlessly debar them from "their" temples while secularly admitting rolers and ropers which is seen as being broadminded and inclusive.

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 22 Jul 2019 17:35

the reason for omar the abdullah's ire at the governor of J&K

India Today Verified account @IndiaToday

#BREAKING: J&K governor gives a shocking statement. @ShujaUH tells us more about this.

watch video https://twitter.com/IndiaToday/status/1 ... 1278310402

some back ground

Senior Peoples Conference (PC) leader Imran Raza Ansari Friday lashed out at Sheikh Abdullah and his family accusing them of “looting” public money to fill their own coffers.

Addressing a news conference, Ansari sought to explain how politicians mint money after coming to power and questioned the source of multiple houses Abdullah family owns across the world.

“Who was Sheikh Abdullah? A teacher from Soura. What did Omar Abdullah inherit from his grandfather?” Ansari said. “Today Abdullah family owns a house in London, a house in south France, a house in New Delhi, and a house in Gurgaon besides the houses at Gupkar road. Omar and Farooq Abdullah have two to three luxuries cars worth crores of rupees and wear clothes worth lakhs. In Delhi they are referred to as ‘Sheikhs of Kashmir’ and they own property worth thousands of crores. Where did all that money come from? It is the proverbial rags to riches story.”

Ansari, who was a PDP minister and on Thursday announced joining BJP’s ally Peoples Conference (PC) of Sajad Gani Lone, said how after joining politics, Abdullah family managed to possess such wealth.

ArjunPandit · Post by **ArjunPandit** » 22 Jul 2019 18:19

could not find RTI bill amendment being discussed here..i could find the folloiwng

The Right to Information (Amendment) Bill, 2019 was introduced in Lok Sabha by the Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Mr. Jitendra Singh, on July 19, 2019. It seeks to amend the Right to Information Act, 2005. Key features of the Bill include:

Term of Information Commissioners: Under the Act, Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) and Information Commissioners (ICs) are appointed at the national and state level to implement the provisions of the Act. The Act states that the CIC and other ICs (appointed at the central and state level) will hold office for a term of five years. The Bill removes this provision and states that the central government will notify the term of office for the CIC and the ICs.

Determination of salary: The Act states that the salary of the CIC and ICs (at the central level) will be equivalent to the salary paid to the Chief Election Commissioner and Election Commissioners, respectively. Similarly, the salary of the CIC and ICs (at the state level) will be equivalent to the salary paid to the Election Commissioners and the Chief Secretary to the state government, respectively.

The Bill seeks to amend these provisions to state that the salaries, allowances, and other terms and conditions of service of the central and state CIC and ICs will be determined by the central government.

Deductions in salary: The Act states that at the time of the appointment of the CIC and ICs (at the central and state level), if they are receiving pension or any other retirement benefits for previous government service, their salaries will be reduced by an amount equal to the pension.

Previous government service includes service under: (i) the central government, (ii) state government, (iii) corporation established under a central or state law, and (iv) government company owned or controlled by the central or state government.

The Bill removes these provisions.

was wondering what is the BRF viewpoint on this, but found the following on what transpired at high level
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/b ... 2019-07-19

vijayk · Post by **vijayk** » 22 Jul 2019 22:15

https://www.pgurus.com/christianity-too ... istration/
Christianity took over Andhra Administration?
Hindu Activists voices are being muzzled with police power

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 22 Jul 2019 22:43

Blame discord among Congress leaders for crisis in Karnataka

Blame discord among Congress leaders for crisis in Karnataka

If the governments in Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan were to fall or see serious threats, then nobody is to be blamed save the Congress itself.

Abhijit Iyer-Mitra

It seems the Karnataka government is going to fall, and fall quite soon. Whispers suggest that Madhya Pradesh will be next, followed by Rajasthan. Invariably the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will be blamed and the usual hysterical dirges suitable disguised as ‘op-eds’ rhyming with ‘murder of democracy’ will start. What this does, is hide the fact that the internal churn within the Indian National Congress has more to do with what’s happening than the BJP.

To start, the Congress-Janata Dal(Secular) alliance was never going to work. The bigger partner (the Congress) ceding the chief minister’s post to the smaller partner (JDS) was tactical genius, but a strategic blunder. It was never going to fly for long with ambitious people such as former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah. To give one a foreign policy analogy, it was much like Mao Tse Tung, resenting being forced to play second fiddle to Nikita Khrushchev after Stalin’s death, leading invariably to the Sino-Soviet split.

Obviously the Congress lost no opportunity to boss over its ostensible boss HD Kumaraswamy; the lèse-majesté driving the latter to cry in public. Honestly, you can’t make a grown man cry and not expect him to have the daggers out for you.
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The abysmal showing in the recent Lok Sabha elections only confirmed what everyone knew: that the Congress’ and JDS’ vote bases were fundamentally incompatible and forming a government together didn’t ensure vote transference from one to the other. All up the government was a stillborn, administratively, politically and more importantly in interpersonal terms in that it set off internal resentment within both parties.

The second issue is how the Congress being an agglomeration of chieftains is seeing fierce intra-party fighting, now exacerbated over scarce resources. In Karnataka this points towards one man — Siddaramaiah, who still hasn’t gotten used to not being Chief Minister.

If bullying Kumaraswamy wasn't enough, Siddaramaiah has been playing a double game, convinced that he can strain the JDS to the point that it cedes the chief minster’s chair to him. To this end he has been alienating party colleagues on the one hand and on the other, many claim in private conversations, that the rebel Congress MLA’s have been instigated by him as part of his strategy of ‘permanent tension’.

DK Shivakumar is the one man who has put the party first but his best efforts have been thwarted by Siddaramaiah’s mischief, who is jealous that Shivakumar may make him redundant. The Congress state president Dinesh Gundurao is by all accounts unable to crack the whip on this one-sided feud.

Indeed the Karnataka infighting pattern rhymes in both Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.

In Madhya Pradesh, the differences between Chief Minister Kamal Nath and party leader Jyotiraditya Scindia have come to the fore after the electoral defeat in the Lok Sabha elections. Scindia though is not entirely to blame given that Nath focused all his attention and resources on getting his son elected rather than ensuring a party victory. Rajasthan is no different. Smarting over not being made Chief Minister, Sachin Pilot essentially sat out the elections with many rumours doing the rounds that he asked his loyalists to help the BJP during the Lok Sabha polls. This situation was compounded by Ashok Gehlot (much like Kamal Nath) focusing on his own son’s parliamentary constituency and ignoring the rest of the state.

In all three states — Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan — infighting and internal sabotage have played a far greater role than the BJP.

Finally, while intra-state dynamics are important, there’s the national level churn happening affecting what happens in the states. Today, much like in 1977, the vast chunk of Congress MPs come from the south with Kerala being the single biggest block. This has morphed into a North-South divide with the south wanting its share in the national pie, a pie in which it remains almost entirely ignored.

Given their relative importance within the party, southern apparatchiks are manoeuvring for a shift in the balance of power to them within the AICC, away from the North Indian heavyweights. To be fair there is no sense of a “unified south” but rather an agglutination of the desires of individual southern heavyweights. Like all political fights, this involves much backstabbing, betrayal and working to weaken the party in order to increase ones relative strength.

All put, if the Congress governments in Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan were to fall or see serious threats, then nobody is to be blamed save the Congress itself. ‘Opportunistic’ is an overused word in politics, which is after all the art of opportunity and would be a monumental dereliction of duty on the part of the BJP to not exploit this. As they say, “fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me”, and so with these three states, the shame will entirely be the Congress’.

Abhijit Iyer-Mitra is a defence economist and senior fellow at Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, New Delhi. Twitter: @iyervval. Views are personal.

OmkarC · Post by **OmkarC** » 23 Jul 2019 02:13

vijayk wrote:https://www.pgurus.com/christianity-too ... istration/
Christianity took over Andhra Administration?
Hindu Activists voices are being muzzled with police power

May not be enough justification for Andhra Hindus to shed their caste differences to consolidate.. and even if they consolidate, it wouldnt benefit BJP and infact benefit TDP, which will as usual do nothing.

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 23 Jul 2019 03:52

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They have not learnt a single lesson even after getting zero seats in 21 states/UTs. They will give credit to Nehru for success of ISRO but start attacking if you connect Kashmir conflict with Nehru. If anyone deserves credit for #Chandrayaan2, they are its scientinst.

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This is a good time to remember the visionary move of India's first PM Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru to fund space research through INCOSPAR in1962 which later became ISRO. And also Dr. Manmohan Singh for sanctioning the #Chandrayan2 project in 2008.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 23 Jul 2019 03:55

chetak wrote:twitter

They have not learnt a single lesson even after getting zero seats in 21 states/UTs. They will give credit to Nehru for success of ISRO but start attacking if you connect Kashmir conflict with Nehru. If anyone deserves credit for #Chandrayaan2, they are its scientist.

Also Congress covers up their role in ISRO spy case with AKA clean mundu role in fostering the case on ISRO scientists.

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 23 Jul 2019 14:57

by tweeting on everything under the sun, omar the abdullah is trying to hype his profile for the forth coming art 370 "battles" and other issues for which he wants to be recognized as the "tallest" cashmere "leader"

NIA has already traced 15 crores worth of property "belonging" to yasin malik who has no known means or sources of income.

One wonders as to how the other jehadi families dominating the valley politics will explain away their huge wealth and extensive properties.

Donald Trump's clumsy 'mediation' claim over Kashmir gives Pakistan chance to link progress in Afghanistan and dialogue with India

Donald Trumps clumsy mediation claim over Kashmir gives Pakistan chance to link progress in Afghanistan and dialogue with India

Tara Kartha, Jul 23, 2019

At some level, it was hilarious. The President of the United States of America going so far off the mark on a highly sensitive issue that it became difficult to understand whether he was actually aware of what he was saying. Clearly not.

Point one, Prime Minister Narendra Modi would never, under any imaginable circumstance, have asked POTUS, particularly this one, to intercede on Kashmir. Point two. His effusive praise of Imran Khan means nothing; remember he said that he 'loves' North Korea's Kim Jong-un. That's his style. Trump is nothing but focussed on winning the next election. And for that he needs to get (nearly) all his troops out of Afghanistan. This is about Trump winning, anyhow, even if it hurts someone. Hopefully, that won't mean carpet bombing the Afghanistan and thereby winning the war in 'ten days' as he put it. One can almost imagine the State Department pro's reeling in shock.

There is no doubt at all that the question on Kashmir was planted among the Pakistani media present at the time, and that POTUS rose to it like a fish at a bait. But here's the thing. Nothing has really changed. First, the whole backpedalling exercise has already begun. The South and Central Asia Desk at the State Department has already put out a statement which said, "While Kashmir is a bilateral issue for both parties to discuss, the Trump administration welcomes Pakistan and India sitting down and the United States stands ready to assist".

This was diplomatic jugglery of a considerable scale. The Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Rep Eliot L Engel has already called on the Indian Ambassador Harsh Shringla, and reiterated the long standing US position on Kashmir, that while the US supported dialogue, the pace and scope can only be determined by the two states. He also chose to reiterate the US position that Pakistan take 'concrete and irreversible' steps to dismantle terrorist infrastructure. The fact that such corrections have been made, and so quickly, gives some sense of the importance that the US gives to stable ties with India.

Second, don't forget that the real point of the whole exercise of calling the Pakistan Prime Minister was made absolutely clear in the "Background press call" made by the White House on 19 July. It clearly said that the visit was meant to 'incentivise' Pakistan to go ahead further on bringing the Taliban to the table. Further it was amply clear that in actual discussions, Pakistan was pressed hard on Afghanistan, asked to provide connectivity between India and Afghanistan, and continue with curbing terrorism. This time round, there is one thing that is different from earlier visits of Pakistani prime ministers — there is no illusion at all in the State Department or anywhere else that the Pakistani milt-establishment will try their best to wriggle out of their anti -terrorism commitments in an effort to have the cake and eat it too.

Here's what Islamabad would like to do. Having got this somewhat confused commitment from POTUS about mediating or arbitrating in Kashmir, they will try their best to link further progress in Afghanistan to 'at least' opening a dialogue with India — with Kashmir as one of the subjects for dialogue.

In other words, a revival of the Composite Dialogue, that was an idea mooted in May 1997, and with little relevance to today's India. Both the State Department and the Ministry of External Affairs in India will expect this. Both have to stay firm — the US because such linkage has never worked in the past and never will, simply because the Taliban in Afghanistan and the terrorist cess pool in Pakistan are one and the same. There is now adequate understanding that lines cant be drawn between the bad guys in Afghanistan and the ones elsewhere.

The MEA will also hopefully ignore the reference to Kashmir entirely. This is an unfortunate error and needs to be treated as such. Certainly the political opposition in India will try to ramp up the "mediation" offer, with National Conference leader Omar Abdullah already on Twitter questioning the governments stance.

Personally I think @realDonaldTrump is talking out of his hat when he says @PMOIndia asked for US involvement in solving the Kashmir issue but I’d like to see @MEAIndia call Trump out on his claim. https://t.co/JRlH4mehrp

— Omar Abdullah (@OmarAbdullah) July 22, 2019

Is Govt of India going to call @realDonaldTrump a liar or has there been an undeclared shift in India’s position on third party involvement in #Kashmir?

— Omar Abdullah (@OmarAbdullah) July 22, 2019

To fight this out on social media is unnecessary, particularly after the extent officials have gone to limit the damage. Omar knows — more than others — that India's position on Kashmir is not just a grand statement, but one codified in the Simla Agreement of 1972. He is also probably aware that the bilateral aspect has been recognised and respected by at least the last three Administrations in the United States not for any moral reasons, but because it suits them to do so.

Another serious error could also be made in the immediate future. Islamabad may try for another serious terrorist attack with a view to goad India into retaliation, and thus raking up 'international' attention at what it sees as a propitious time. That would be unfortunate in the extreme— for Pakistan.

Here's the truth. The issue here is not Kashmir or even Afghanistan. It is that the mess that Pakistan has fallen into — the Pakistan rupee stands at 162 to the dollar — has been precisely due to its patronage of jihadis of all kinds for the last three decades.

Imran Khan is right on some things. When he spoke to a cheering audience of 30,000 Pakistanis at the "Town Hall' meeting at Capital One auditorium, he recalled correctly, how Pakistan was once the pride of South Asia. In the early 1980's Pakistan's GDP was far more than any other country in the region. From then to now, how the tide had changed.

Today, Pakistan is as close as it ever has been, on the path to becoming a failed state. The central reason for that has been the sponsorship of terrorism, and the seepage of that ideology into the military, the intelligence services and some parts of the body politic. To get out of the mess into which it has fallen, Pakistan has not just got to shut down terrorist camps, it has to erase the very basis for this ideology of violence and hate that goes with it. That means firstly publicly admitting that interfering in Afghanistan was a mistake, and helping the Afghans to get back to their feet.

The second is to end the Kashmir issue by recognising that its not worth forcing about 200 million Pakistanis to commit collective suicide for a cause its never going to win. The step towards this is to finally give Gilgit Baltistan the full province status that it desires. That in turn makes the CPEC a legally tenable corridor. The final solution to its troubles lies in Pakistani hands. It just has to realise it.

greatde · Post by **greatde** » 23 Jul 2019 16:21

Pak diplomacy historically has generally been better than India, and recent Trump issue is just another example. They caught and set-it up very well. It's embarrassment and, damage has been done for Indo-US relations...

pankajs · Post by **pankajs** » 23 Jul 2019 16:56

^^
Apart from the Media circus in India what damage has been done?

Now, if it is limited to the Indian media circus, then one can look back at the last 5 years of Modi's term and the many many media circus and what does it show us?

Pratyush · Post by **Pratyush** » 23 Jul 2019 17:33

greatde wrote:Pak diplomacy historically has generally been better than India, and recent Trump issue is just another example. They caught and set-it up very well. It's embarrassment and, damage has been done for Indo-US relations...

How so?

Trump has no credibility to offer anything.

The only people jumping up and down are Congress and some sections of media.

krishna_krishna · Post by **krishna_krishna** » 23 Jul 2019 17:39

pankajs wrote:^^
Apart from the Media circus in India what damage has been done?

+100, nothing got damaged but there was nothing to get damaged to begin with.

Only people who go Gaga over damaged relations are Congi bafoons and massa mojo connoisseur‘s.

Indian and US interests were never aligned and never will be. Massa is declining superpower consolidating its position as much as possible with n the declining phase same as Brit’s did after ww2.

vijayk · Post by **vijayk** » 23 Jul 2019 20:03

Looks like he is done

HD Kumaraswamy loses trust vote; 105 MLAs vote against govt
HD Kumaraswamy lost the trust vote on Tuesday, the fourth day when the House debated on the confidence motion. While 99 MLAs voted for the government, 105 voted against it.

Sachin · Post by **Sachin** » 23 Jul 2019 20:18

Bjp is on wafer thin majority. 105 when 103 is the pass mark.

vijayk · Post by **vijayk** » 23 Jul 2019 20:20

https://www.firstpost.com/politics/amit ... 41841.html
Amit Shah tells BJP MPs to be prepared for extended Monsoon Session of Parliament; extension likely to last 10 days

During the BJP meeting, the issue of water conservation figured prominently with Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat giving a detailed presentation on the matter, Joshi said. MPs were asked to spread awareness about water conservation.

Shah, the minister added, spoke on the matter and also briefed MPs about the 150-km foot march Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked them to undertake to mark 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.

Modi was also present at the meeting.

pankajs · Post by **pankajs** » 23 Jul 2019 20:57

This is especially for CSR saaru. The same incompetence that Mudi displayed wrt US/Trump he is displaying in Bihar/Nitishwa.

https://www.ndtv.com/opinion/amit-shah- ... er-2073747

His relief must have been palpable on Monday as his Deputy Chief Minister in Bihar, Sushil Kumar Modi of the BJP, said that for the state election next year, Nitish Kumar will remain the presumptive Chief Ministerial candidate of the coalition government he runs with the BJP.

The endorsement from Sushil Modi comes after an embarrassing oops when it turned out that Bihar's CID has been snooping on RSS leaders in Bihar. The assumption was that Nitish has asked for this - or was at least in the know.

Instead of a rift, Union Home Minister Amit Shah leaned in for a real-time demonstration of how to manage an ally for a key election. Nitish would be the alliance's Chief Ministerial face. Deal done. Months to go before voting and to ensure minimal fissures over seat-sharing.

Here Mudi is sucking up to Nitishwa even after being slapped on the face. Mudi has no backbone and no real understanding of politics, etc. Wonder how did such an incompetent/clueless person win again in GE 2019!

vijayk · Post by **vijayk** » 24 Jul 2019 00:32

https://www.openthemagazine.com/article ... -awakening

The Awakening

India has been one of the principal beneficiaries of globalisation — although the process is not uniform. Logically, if the belief that economics moulds politics holds good, the political centre of gravity should have moved in a markedly liberal direction. It clearly hasn’t. I think one of the main reasons why this process was stalled was the unanticipated growth of Islamist radicalism.

Till the revolution in Iran and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979-80, pan-Islamism was the prerogative of West Asian states flushed with petro-dollars. However, as the conflicts in that region intensified and assumed different complexions, the fallout in the subcontinent became more profound. Pakistan was undeniably the worst affected as it drifted away from the Ataturk-Pahlavi model towards internal strife and Islamism. In India, there was a marked increase in terrorism, with the Ayodhya movement also being a significant internal trigger. However, much more than the actual blasts, terrorism led to the deepening of a pre-existing communal schism. Hindus in particular felt increasingly beleaguered and were confronted with a realisation that they had no political weaponry to preserve their heritage from both liberal and Islamist encroachments. While liberals celebrated the coming of age of fragmented politics — caste assertions, gender consciousness and exaggerated libertarian impulses — the Islamists went the other extreme, promoting social seclusion of Muslims, flexing demographic muscle and encouraging the secession of Kashmir from India.

That there would be a sharp reaction was inevitable. Had uber liberalism been the dominant trend, there would have been a corresponding rise in social conservatism and even a possible disavowal of the trappings of modernity. As a political construct, Gandhism was there, ready and waiting for all those anxious to equate modernity with alien mores. The reaction, however, centred more on anxieties over terrorism and the possible disintegration of the nation-state. Indian nationalism didn’t begin fading out after the country secured Independence in 1947. It was sustained through the past decades by a combination of wars with neighbours, real and perceived slights, victories on the cricket field and, above all, by religio-civilisational solidarity. It is erroneous to suggest that this was the sole contribution of Narendra Modi. The present Prime Minister may have helped blend nationalism with a fierce sense of individual and collective betterment, but the mood in today’s India was built layer by layer by diverse individuals ranging from Indira Gandhi, APJ Abdul Kalam, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and even cricketers and Bollywood stars.

Today’s India has often been compared by precocious, radical writers to Erdog˘an’sTurkey and Putin’s Russia. There may well be similarities in the leadership’s formal and informal repudiation of liberalism. However, at the end of the day what marks the three is a sharp detachment of the common people from those who believe being Indian is an accident of birth. What Indians have successfully done over the past few decades is to leave their own mark on everything: from masala dosa in the canteens of Silicon Valley and Bollywood to the domination of cricket to the evolution of Indian English.

The Indian — you may well call it Hindu — assertion that is so visible today is based on supreme overconfidence. Maybe there is also anger, but that is more akin to impatience. Not like the political bitterness of the ageing Lefties I still encounter in the global centres of cosmopolitanism.

India feels it is winning; the West is convinced that its decline is irreversible. It may all be false consciousness but for the moment it is real.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 24 Jul 2019 00:42

Exactly two months after 23 May 2019 election results.
The biggest crooks have been unseated.

Thanks Amit Shah.

KLNMurthy · Post by **KLNMurthy** » 24 Jul 2019 03:39

greatde wrote:Pak diplomacy historically has generally been better than India, and recent Trump issue is just another example. They caught and set-it up very well. It's embarrassment and, damage has been done for Indo-US relations...

yes, also, pakis are TFTA and speak better English.

komal · Post by **komal** » 24 Jul 2019 06:50

greatde wrote:Pak diplomacy historically has generally been better than India, and recent Trump issue is just another example. They caught and set-it up very well. It's embarrassment and, damage has been done for Indo-US relations...

if only Mani Shankar Aiyar was running MEA ....

Atmavik · Post by **Atmavik** » 24 Jul 2019 07:06

KLNMurthy wrote:
greatde wrote:Pak diplomacy historically has generally been better than India, and recent Trump issue is just another example. They caught and set-it up very well. It's embarrassment and, damage has been done for Indo-US relations...
yes, also, pakis are TFTA and speak better English.

paki diplomacy like most things paki is tactically brilliant. they strive for short term gains while driving themselves deeper into the shit hole they are in.

Karthik S · Post by **Karthik S** » 24 Jul 2019 14:50

gakakkad · Post by **gakakkad** » 24 Jul 2019 16:02

Don't read too much x DTS comments. I am not sure if DT himself takes them seriously. Anything coming out of his mouth == anything coming out of pappus mouth.

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 24 Jul 2019 17:27

gakakkad wrote:Don't read too much x DTS comments. I am not sure if DT himself takes them seriously. Anything coming out of his mouth == anything coming out of pappus mouth.

anatomically speaking, I have a much lower perception of the orifices involved in the egress of the opinions/pronouncements of both these gentlemen

Karthik S · Post by **Karthik S** » 24 Jul 2019 20:43

Why does the above post concern us?

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स्वस्थ और फिट रहने के लिए सुबह 6.30 बजे देखना नहीं भूलें हमारी प्रस्तुति कार्यक्रम “योगा विद इरा त्रिवेदी” सिर्फ @DDNational पर।
#Yoga with @iratrivediTranslate Tweet

Who is in-charge of the concerned ministry, the star minister javadekar.

https://twitter.com/thuug_lyf/status/11 ... 0380788736

There she says beef is cheapest source of protein and to take that away through ban is very unfair to many communities especially muslims.

vijayk · Post by **vijayk** » 24 Jul 2019 22:24

Karthik S wrote:

What is the intent here?

I was hoping for this minority welfare minsitry to go away in Modi 2.0.

If the intent is to help poor people with training opportunities, make it lower income disadvantage groups kind of group to help all across the board regardless of religion/caste.

Why are they not putting some thought into it?

vijayk · Post by **vijayk** » 24 Jul 2019 22:28

Karthik S wrote:

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स्वस्थ और फिट रहने के लिए सुबह 6.30 बजे देखना नहीं भूलें हमारी प्रस्तुति कार्यक्रम “योगा विद इरा त्रिवेदी” सिर्फ @DDNational पर।
#Yoga with @iratrivediTranslate Tweet
Who is in-charge of the concerned ministry, the star minister javadekar.

https://twitter.com/thuug_lyf/status/11 ... 0380788736

There she says beef is cheapest source of protein and to take that away through ban is very unfair to many communities especially muslims.

She is daughter of some big yesteryears MP Congress VC Shukla.

Was a big IOI scum. Uses anti-hIndu rhetoric to sell her books/speeches. Always there anywhere you can get publicity. During #MeToo she targeted Chetan Bhagat as someone who tried to cozy with her. He released couple of her emails actually showing her trying to cozy up with him.

From wikipedia

Family
Ira's father Vishwapati Trivedi has held several senior positions in the Indian Government including as the Chairman of India's National Airline, Air India.

Her grandmother, Kranti Trivedi, was a well known Hindi writer. A stamp in her honor was released by the Government of India in 2010. Her great grandfather, Pandit Ravishankar Shukla, was the first Chief minister of Madhya Pradesh and an instrumental part of India's freedom struggle.

Other members of Ira's family include, Vidya Charan Shukla and Shyama Charan Shukla, both veteran Indian politicians. The Shukla's are often regarded as the first family of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 24 Jul 2019 23:09

vijayk wrote:
Karthik S wrote:

Why does the above post concern us?

Who is in-charge of the concerned ministry, the star minister javadekar.

https://twitter.com/thuug_lyf/status/11 ... 0380788736

There she says beef is cheapest source of protein and to take that away through ban is very unfair to many communities especially muslims.
She is daughter of some big yesteryears MP Congress VC Shukla.

Was a big IOI scum. Uses anti-hIndu rhetoric to sell her books/speeches. Always there anywhere you can get publicity. During #MeToo she targeted Chetan Bhagat as someone who tried to cozy with her. He released couple of her emails actually showing her trying to cozy up with him.

From wikipedia

Family
Ira's father Vishwapati Trivedi has held several senior positions in the Indian Government including as the Chairman of India's National Airline, Air India.

Her grandmother, Kranti Trivedi, was a well known Hindi writer. A stamp in her honor was released by the Government of India in 2010. Her great grandfather, Pandit Ravishankar Shukla, was the first Chief minister of Madhya Pradesh and an instrumental part of India's freedom struggle.

Other members of Ira's family include, Vidya Charan Shukla and Shyama Charan Shukla, both veteran Indian politicians. The Shukla's are often regarded as the first family of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

no biggie here.

Her next stop is her own well funded NGO

she is pitching for NGO funds.

that is the only objective after building up visibility on TV and getting some traction on social media to attract attention on SM and snag the attention of shady NGOs to buttress her sales pitch.

beef, RW bashing and minority rights are the in things with the NGO set.

BTW, in her family tree, there are some very notorious #metoo offenders